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It is spring (by the meteorological calendar), so I'm freshening up the OP with a new thing where I post from some book I'm reading contains something unexpectedly relevant to current events, so here's one from Folk devils and moral panics by Stanley Cohen, where he discusses the tipping point where a simple moral panic (which may come from something genuinely terrible, like the murder of Jamie Bulger, but goes in a stupid direction, like mass blaming of horror VHS tapes) and outright group hatred (which is what starts pogroms). The part where he draws the line is a good look at the 00s prequal to SMOL BOTES and ends up slamming both major parties and every British paper repeatedly. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Somebody fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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apparently THIS is the thread to talk about how much i loving hate thames water because after 6 hours of no water in my building and getting basically zero help from them or my building manager and having to help some poor sub-contractor being given wrong/outdated info before finding out it's in fact the whole block affected i loving hate them a lot right now
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:17 |
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unrelated. i thought this was a nice post. we are all oompa-loomping thru it https://bsky.app/profile/vore.sex/post/3kmltecj3y42s
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:21 |
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really misread your first paragraph as "spring on the neurological calendar"
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:21 |
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Water should not be privatised imo Happy birthday to meeee
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:21 |
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Nuclear Spoon posted:unrelated. i thought this was a nice post. we are all oompa-loomping thru it i really like this take on it because the picture of her going around does not reflect well when she probably wasn't even ready to have her pic taken
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:22 |
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bluesky user vore dot sex more wholesome than any mainstream UK media
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:28 |
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:29 |
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Guavanaut posted:bluesky user vore dot sex more wholesome than any mainstream UK media well, not a high bar
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 02:29 |
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Carrying on from the previous discussion, I used to be very involved in militant anti-fascism and after a while I don’t really hate the fash. They were my enemy and I was theirs but we had common ground in that we all recognised something was deeply wrong and had the will to try and change it. I got to know some of them purely by nature of being stood in the cold with them for hours at a time and I’d happily clobber them, and sometimes did, and vice versa, but we both had a separate disdain for the liberals, a much more awful group of privileged wankers who saw nothing wrong at all. And I don’t mean the real nazis, I mean the maladjusted weirdos who’d fallen down the rabbit hole. I met so many of them who I thought “gently caress, that’s such a shame, cos we see the same problems but we’re knocking gently caress out of each other because you lot have misabttributed that to Muslims or gays or whatever”
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 03:10 |
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lmao, can't alloway the galloway local independent was second on 6k, three main parties between them barely added up to 8k
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 03:50 |
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Apraxin posted:lmao, can't alloway the galloway More stats: https://x.com/taj_ali1/status/1763397199960928577?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Yeah, even accounting for the various catastrophes in other parties' local campaigns, this seems like an extremely convincing repudiation of them on a national level.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 04:03 |
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Darth Walrus posted:More stats: lmao how often do you see a riding change by 48 percent
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 04:16 |
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For some reason it annoys me that Galloway doesn’t match his hat to his suit. Like the hat is a silly gimmick but come on man put a little effort in, your can’t do black hat and blue suit, it just looks bad. Don’t wear a hat darker than your suit unless your suit is light tan or white. I know you have lighter coloured hats, I’ve seen them, surely you must have tried them on when getting dressed, how did you put on the black one and thing “yep, this is right”. Honestly! Things I think about at 3:30am.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 04:32 |
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Calling Sunak and Starmer 2 cheeks of the same arse in a victory speech is pretty funny.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 04:34 |
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PawParole posted:no Galloway will the next PM. It makes perfect sense if you think about it. PawParole posted:if the tories do destroy trust in media, then that will hurt them because they’re friends with Murdoch and the dumbest possible option for PM will happen. PawParole posted:my prediction for 2024: labour will undergo pasokifacation by 2024, and George Galloway will be PM, and make cat girls real, and bomb the Free-mason Illuminati aliens of brussels into the stone age PawParole posted:don’t come asking me for 100 million quid from my winnings to buy a black market loaf after Galloway forces everyone to live on cat food or get sent to the Isle of Wright gulags. galloway pm by 2030
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 05:02 |
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lmao
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 07:04 |
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lol, lmao, even.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 07:44 |
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and indeed
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 07:58 |
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Darth Walrus posted:Yeah, even accounting for the various catastrophes in other parties' local campaigns, this seems like an extremely convincing repudiation of them on a national level. seems to speak to a deep dissatisfaction with how things are, if only we had a compassionate leftist leader with grass roots support who could offer an alternative national vision. oh well!
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:07 |
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double post: hahahahaha
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:09 |
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I mean yeah that's how elections work...
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:20 |
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Lmao Maugrim posted:Happy birthday to meeee I so deeply want to see Labour eat poo poo.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:20 |
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Also happy birthday to you! The universe got you gorgeous george as a birthday gift.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:21 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIy_GmvUElE
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:22 |
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PawParole posted:galloway pm by 2030 I can respect a man who stands by his posting
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:30 |
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I somewhat feel sorry for Rochdale, he will be a poo poo MP for them. But it's very funny seeing this happen to Labour.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:34 |
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are you allowed to wear a hat in the commons
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:36 |
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Skarsnik posted:are you allowed to wear a hat in the commons galloway you should really take a stand on this. refuse to show up to parliament until the hat rule is revoked. maybe just refuse to show up to parliament at all. that would really own the, uh, whoever if you want a picture of the future,
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:53 |
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Oompah Loompah lady breaks cover and is on ITV
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:53 |
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Skarsnik posted:are you allowed to wear a hat in the commons It has to have been acquired by your noble family prior to the death of Richard III.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:55 |
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I'm glad she's out there showing people that she's actually quite good looking
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 08:55 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'm glad she's out there showing people that she's actually quite good looking Aye good luck to her. Hopefully they’ll offer her a last minute slot on Celeb Big Brother. She’s now better known than half the dregs they will unveil next week
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 09:02 |
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fuctifino posted:and indeed Forensic stuff from Sir Sensible…
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 09:08 |
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personally I didn't think the original photo reflected that badly on her, i mean who wouldn't have their soul leave their body on walking into Wally Wanker's Chocolate Experience or whatever. but yes still being able to force yourself to try to do something, anything for the kids in the middle of an utter garbage fire is still very admirablesmellmycheese posted:Hopefully they’ll offer her a last minute slot on Celeb Big Brother. hasn't she already suffered enough
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 09:10 |
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That photo resonated because there’s some kind of way it captures the essential emotion of degrading customer service/gig economy work. Enhanced by the layer that Oompa Loompas are in universe “happy slaves” in a factory. Although I’m sure that parts been downplayed in the recent remakes etc.
massive spider fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Mar 1, 2024 |
# ? Mar 1, 2024 09:33 |
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i think most posts i saw were like "I love this lady she's a hero, she's me" but i realise i don't live on Crylaugh Emoji Dickhead internet
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 09:34 |
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Mega Comrade posted:I somewhat feel sorry for Rochdale, he will be a poo poo MP for them. But it's very funny seeing this happen to Labour. By all accounts he was poo poo as Bradford West’s MP, ran pretty much the same campaign as this one then never bothered to actually do any work as an MP.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 09:42 |
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smellmycheese posted:Oompah Loompah lady breaks cover and is on ITV
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 09:57 |
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Yeah but doing regular MP stuff, whether in Westminster or constituency stuff, doesn't exactly help aggrandize him.
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# ? Mar 1, 2024 10:01 |