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fuctifino posted:It'll be to do with things like the billions of pounds given to his wife's family's firm as well as all the other dodgy contracts that we've yet to hear of. Also it's just kind of a sport to these people. They have hundreds of millions of pounds and could do literally whatever they wanted for the rest of their lives without coming anywhere near even spending the interest that their money would generate*... but they have nothing better to do. They want for nothing, they don't actually need to *do* anything because their companies are all run in the day-to-day by other people, so they have a crack at running the country. Doesn't matter that they literally could not be more disconnected from the lives of ordinary people, they believe they're born to rule. It's also the ultimate status thing among his rich oval office friends, I would imagine. *I just checked, if Sunak put his net worth of ~£730m into a Barclays "Everyday Saver" account with 1.65% interest, he'd make 12 million quid a year. E: Cat tax. My kitties in their "Cat condo" as they call them over here. 
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He's just so bad at this. Even when he takes a stand and makes the morally correct point, he does it for the wrong reasons and it doesn't win him any points with the people it should because of all of the other transphobic poo poo pouring out of the party. He is literally not winning over anyone from either side he vacillates so much over everything.
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Feb 7, 2024 16:40
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I imagine that I too would be “very philanthropic” if I was merrily creaming off tens of millions of loving pounds of taxpayer cash due to my wife’s corrupt connections. Cunts. 
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Feb 7, 2024 16:54
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The bad Enoch has tweeted in defence of the dwarf https://twitter.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1755243158177296762 My gaslight meter just exploded
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Feb 7, 2024 17:14
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Saw the Sunak poo poo happen live. Holy poo poo even if you're able to park the rampant transphobia behind the comment (I appreciate that's very hard) it's absolutely terrible optics. He would have (or should have) known Esther Grey was in the gallery (although apparently she wasn't physically present when the remarks were made). He came in with a pre-planned attack line where transphobia was the punchline and kept it there. There is no way that plays well and it's such an easy attack line for the opposition. But then, the cruelty is the point isn't it.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:26
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EvilHawk posted:Saw the Sunak poo poo happen live. Holy poo poo even if you're able to park the rampant transphobia behind the comment (I appreciate that's very hard) it's absolutely terrible optics. He would have (or should have) known Esther Grey was in the gallery (although apparently she wasn't physically present when the remarks were made). He came in with a pre-planned attack line where transphobia was the punchline and kept it there. There is no way that plays well and it's such an easy attack line for the opposition. He definitely knew she was there because Starmer had told him approximately 1 minute earlier.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:31
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WhatEvil posted:E: Cat tax. My kitties in their "Cat condo" as they call them over here. I would pet their bellies with the full knowledge that they would murder me for the attempt
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Feb 7, 2024 17:32
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a pipe smoking dog posted:He definitely knew she was there because Starmer had told him approximately 1 minute earlier. Yeah, this can't be stressed loudly enough.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:33
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fuctifino posted:The bad Enoch has tweeted in defence of the dwarf Since she's able to be so clear on matters of sex and gender every journalist should be asking her if Brianna was a boy or a girl. I won't hold my breath though.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:38
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fuctifino posted:Yeah, this can't be stressed loudly enough. Let's not kid ourselves though, if she wasn't attending not a single one of them would of given a poo poo about the joke. Starmer is a loving TERF just like the rest.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:38
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The transphobia poo poo plays well with Sunak's base (i.e. absolute cunts), and the gesture politics without anything actually behind it plays well with Starmer's base (Libs who are also total cunts but believe themselves to be better than the Tories).Rappaport posted:I would pet their bellies with the full knowledge that they would murder me for the attempt They actually wouldn't! We trained them as kittens that hands and fingers are never a thing to be attacked. It's quite easy - every time they tried to bite a finger, I sort of gently pushed that finger (knuckle first) into their mouth more. Not enough to hurt them or anything, just enough to give them the reaction of "Oh, I'm not keen on that" and pull away. After not very long they get the instinct of "Oh, I don't want to bite/attack that", and it sticks, and you can give them belly rubs and touch their paws and ears etc. if you need to with little objection, which is useful for checking them out for medical issues and things like that. I think lots of people play with kittens by just sort of attacking them with their hands directly, and this trains them to attack, particularly when your hands are on/near their belly, which is vulnerable, and that's how you end up with the "kitty bellies are like steel traps" thing.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:42
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I'm usually good with cats, I just let them mind their own business and they can figure out they get pets if they are around me. I just wanted to say your cats are lovely.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:47
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PriorMarcus posted:Let's not kid ourselves though, if she wasn't attending not a single one of them would of given a poo poo about the joke. Starmer is a loving TERF just like the rest. I don't think that's actually true. I don't think Starmer gives a poo poo either way, but he's ensconced in that liberal media milieu where TERFs are overly represented & he just cynically thinks that being lovely towards trans people gets him some more votes than not being lovely. None of this is to his credit, the end result is the same, if anything his oppressive cynicism is actually worse than the true believers who are monstrous cunts for a reason at least. He's one out of convenience.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:47
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Rappaport posted:I'm usually good with cats, I just let them mind their own business and they can figure out they get pets if they are around me. I just wanted to say your cats are lovely. Thank you, they are lovely  I'll give them some fuss from you. forkboy84 posted:I don't think that's actually true. I don't think Starmer gives a poo poo either way, but he's ensconced in that liberal media milieu where TERFs are overly represented & he just cynically thinks that being lovely towards trans people gets him some more votes than not being lovely. Yeah I agree with this. Same as like, David Cameron and Theresa May. They don't really believe in anything with any sort of conviction, they just want to be Important People. It's often like, taught to them at private school, with the "debate club" culture. It doesn't matter what you believe, and in fact you don't need to believe in anything at all, so long as you can argue a point.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:55
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My cat has really good claw control on bare skin, but he thinks that the thinnest layer of fabric is impenetrable armor. His latest thing is to hide underneath the bed behind overhanging sheets and attack my feet. This is him in beverage cat mode:
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Feb 7, 2024 17:55
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Haha yeah there is a bit of that with my cats. Less so with attacking, more that they both realised that when they're picked up, rather than staying in your arms, they can instead climb up onto your shoulders. They don't intentionally claw you, but sometimes they use their claws a bit to help with balance and grip, through a T-shirt. It does mean I've had a call from the vet saying "Inigo is doing fine. He's on my shoulders at the moment" which was quite funny.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:00
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WhatEvil posted:The transphobia poo poo plays well with Sunak's base (i.e. absolute cunts), and the gesture politics without anything actually behind it plays well with Starmer's base (Libs who are also total cunts but believe themselves to be better than the Tories). Tories are libs too now. This is why they have so much internal trouble with UKIP types noticing the difference between their rhetoric and policy.
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Feb 7, 2024 18:46
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 It does not take much to make me post a photo of my cat, who is the Best Cat.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:02
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WhatEvil posted:E: Cat tax. My kitties in their "Cat condo" as they call them over here. Aww how sweet, I have a similar one, just a bit smaller and with two separate holes/levels instead of one big one across three. My cat prefers violent attacks to sleeping inside, though. She just loves violently attacking the outside with her claws until it topples over.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:08
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More handbrake turns than the Dukes of Hazzard
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Feb 7, 2024 19:10
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https://twitter.com/AlnaouqA/status/1755277139824332987?t=xcKXs2mAMHfJSl0zOevIZg&s=19 Made me feel a lil sick, then a lil like crying, then I read the comments about how the terrorist lovers should be fined for littering and I was right back to awe at the British mind
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Feb 7, 2024 19:25
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Renfield posted:"Range - eleven hundred Yards" Wait till you hear about the unit of measurement they use for speed... quote: "One knot equals one nautical mile per hour, or roughly 1.15 statute mph. The term knot dates from the 17th century, when sailors measured the speed of their ship using a device called a “common log.” The common log was a rope with knots at regular intervals, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie." https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nautical-mile-knot.html
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Feb 7, 2024 19:26
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I'm not sure Labour understand what the point of a national government is
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Feb 7, 2024 19:29
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Nautical miles a A Good Unit though because they're exactly one minute of latitude. If you're working off sea maps that split the earth into equal fractions they're probably the most sensible unit to use.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:29
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EvilHawk posted:Saw the Sunak poo poo happen live. Holy poo poo even if you're able to park the rampant transphobia behind the comment (I appreciate that's very hard) it's absolutely terrible optics. He would have (or should have) known Esther Grey was in the gallery (although apparently she wasn't physically present when the remarks were made). He came in with a pre-planned attack line where transphobia was the punchline and kept it there. There is no way that plays well and it's such an easy attack line for the opposition. He absolutely knew. Later he delivered a pre-written speech directly to her without a hint of an apology and refused other MPs demands to make an apology.
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Feb 7, 2024 19:41
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Ms Adequate posted:Huh, normally if someone has to wait 75-odd years for the crown and then is on their way out after less than a year wearing it, they have truly incredible stats. Rip Chuck 3, lol if something somehow takes out William and his kids and we have King Harry, there'd be so much boiled piss Charlie has already lost the contest and it will be hard for any of his lineage to break the record, with or without the help of Liz Truss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest-reigning_monarchs My favourite part of this Wikipedia page is that there's a death watch of recently crowned monarchs, e.g. Frederik X of Denmark is on the "reigned for less than a month" list because he's currently at day 24 
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Feb 7, 2024 19:56
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WhatEvil posted:
Surprised they're not both trying to cram in that little box beside the cat condo.
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Feb 7, 2024 20:24
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Dead Goon posted:Truss started off as a Lib Dem, didn't she? She was a Trot first.
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Feb 7, 2024 20:39
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Bobby Deluxe posted:He's just so bad at this. Even when he takes a stand and makes the morally correct point, he does it for the wrong reasons and it doesn't win him any points with the people it should because of all of the other transphobic poo poo pouring out of the party. Ah but this is 11-dimensional chess you see, and when he becomes PM he'll suddenly turn in to Corbyn on Speed. (Apparently). OwlFancier posted:Nautical miles a A Good Unit though because they're exactly one minute of latitude. If you're working off sea maps that split the earth into equal fractions they're probably the most sensible unit to use. Yes, they're more meaningful than any other way. When I were a lass we had to do nautical miles, great circle, and bearings calculations in maths. Don't know if they still do.
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Feb 7, 2024 20:43
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Rhumb lines!
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Feb 7, 2024 20:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Surprised they're not both trying to cram in that little box beside the cat condo. Heh, that *is* why it's there. It's only 5" square, and about 3 feet long. They just barely fit in there, but they have nevertheless crawled through it a bunch of times, including fully chasing each other through. They're silly sods, but adorable.
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Feb 7, 2024 20:48
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smellmycheese posted:More handbrake turns than the Dukes of Hazzard "At least the fiscal rules are intact" as I shatter like the T-1000
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Feb 7, 2024 21:20
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sinky posted:"At least the fiscal rules are intact" as I shatter like the T-1000  "Yes, the country was destroyed, but at least the tabloids didn't say 'Keith the Squid spent all the Quids'... well they did... but it wasn't true!"
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Feb 7, 2024 21:24
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You just wait, in 2035 we'll be saying "Why vote Labour? What did Starmer do aside from transphobia so intense that it made JKR happy?" and some briefcase wanker will tell us that his fiscal policies got the national finances under control and let him fund 2,000 home insulations.
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Feb 7, 2024 22:17
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https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1755334496046432756 Is anyone else getting deja-vu?
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Feb 7, 2024 22:18
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1755334496046432756 teresa Mays election collapse? possibly
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Feb 7, 2024 22:21
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Keith will be even more wooden and bizarre than May come election time imho
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Feb 7, 2024 22:40
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So bad at U turning that you manage to make headlines about the same U turn twice. Policy roundabout.
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Feb 7, 2024 22:41
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I hope that for all of Labour's pathetic attempts to make the media love them, all the coverage once the election is announced is just a long list of people clowning on Keith endlessly
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Feb 7, 2024 22:45
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Without wishing to reboot the AI/art discussion from a few pages ago, this just popped up on my facebook. Might be of interest to some! https://mymodernmet.com/kin-art-ai-protection-artists/ quote:This Free Technology Helps Artists Protect Their Work From Being Used To Train AI
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