https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/tory-leadership-election-x-factor-choosing-antichrist-brexit-frankie-boyle posted:

Theresa May communicates something horrifying, not through her appearance, but rather her unique expression of unwavering, furious disgust. It is the expression some nameless, pitiless archon will wear 50 years from now as it signs a contract to rent out our city centres to pharmaceutical companies so they can crop-spray viruses and harvest antibodies from any survivors. It is the expression Lucifer wore when the other angels attempted an intervention.

ultrabindu posted:

I wish they were still making good Red Dwarf.

TACD posted:

Who needs a whole kit to make a replica England, just find a piece of dogshit and stick a little sign in it that says "gently caress OFF, WE'RE FULL"

quote:

1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor;
2. It's not their fault if they are disabled;
3. Neo-liberalism doesn't work;
4. The Daily Mail lies (maybe even about Pig Dave and charity);
5. Neo-liberalism has never worked;
6. The British Empire was not a force for good;
7. Neo-liberalism will never work;
8. Trans people are not "men in dresses";
9. Gendered insults are not okay;
10. If something is "so gay" it had better be something that is really happy;
11. Trains are awesome;
12. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles;
13. Hope is a lie;
14. Toby Young is wrong, even if he accidentally states something factually correct.

Namtab posted:

Another Person posted:

Figure I may as well throw this in while I am at it for any interested, I find it incredibly useful as a resource. If you have not done so already, sign up for an email subscription of the Parliamentary debate packs and policy briefings.

They offer an email subscription where they will basically send you .pdf summary files of debates taking place in Parliament. You can tailor your subscription to focus on specific policy areas if you want, and you can have it set up so they send you the .pdf as soon as it is available.

You can do this by going to here: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKPARLIAMENT/subscriber/new?preferences=true

An example of these debate briefs can be found here at the bottom of the page, which is where I got the graph above from: http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2016-0203

From a information standpoint, they are actually excellent packs of information and usually you can find the criticism the government wants you to overlook within them. Their statistical briefings are usually pretty drat good, and they give a good summary of what the stats indicate beneath. Of course the actual debate minutes part is usually full of the use hot air you would expect an Parliamentarian to give in a speech, but the stat analysis can sometimes be pretty damning.

I'm signed up to receive basically everything that goes through Parliament and as a politics student, it is an exceptional resource.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

I heard that Brexit was entirely due to a misunderstanding of the difference between an improper and uninformative prior.

TomViolence posted:

Momentum falling out over how best to collectively organise a left-wing mass movement.

big scary monsters posted:

I heard it was thanks to the Leave campaign's use of imaginary numbers.

big scary monsters posted:

I heard it was thanks to the Leave campaign's use of imaginary numbers.

TomViolence posted:

Momentum falling out over how best to collectively organise a left-wing mass movement.

TomViolence posted:

Momentum falling out over how best to collectively organise a left-wing mass movement.

JFairfax posted:

Nissan was convinced to stay in the UK with a promise of no tariffs or extra bureaucratic burdens on the car industry after Brexit, the business secretary has finally revealed, prompting fears that sector-by-sector deals could cost the taxpayer “colossal amounts of money”.

Greg Clark caved in after four days of pressure in an interview on Sunday to reveal some details of how the government convinced the Japanese manufacturer to produce a fleet of new vehicles at its Sunderland plant. The Tory minister said he wrote to Nissan with a series of four assurances as he went “all out” to allay concerns about Brexit, promising that the government was confident of securing a deal that would keep the car industry competitive.

Prince John posted:

Awesome OP, as always.


Just catching up a bit and I noticed this comedy quote above. Seems like Nissan's management have really made a blunder if they're making investment decisions purely on the basis of the government's "It'll be fine, we buy more cars from them than they buy from us" line, rather than actual promises of future bribes subsidy to make up for tariff imposition.

Guavanaut posted:

The Graun's barely concealed joy aside, we might actually get to see some interesting group discussion about direct vs. representative democracy coming out of that.

Prince John posted:

Awesome OP, as always.


Just catching up a bit and I noticed this comedy quote above. Seems like Nissan's management have really made a blunder if they're making investment decisions purely on the basis of the government's "It'll be fine, we buy more cars from them than they buy from us" line, rather than actual promises of future bribes subsidy to make up for tariff imposition.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Sir David Attenborough has come up with a great solution for dealing with right wing politicians.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Sir David Attenborough has come up with a great solution for dealing with right wing politicians.

The DPRK posted:

Look, I know hope is a lie, but this from the Pounded By The Pound thread has left me with some hope that Brexit cannot and will not go ahead.

In fact, I wonder if the Ministers responsible for making Brexit a success are deliberately being loving useless so that when this eventually makes it to the floor, every man and his dog will be badgering their MPs to vote against Brexit.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Happy new month thread, just remember

The DPRK posted:

Look, I know hope is a lie, but this from the Pounded By The Pound thread has left me with some hope that Brexit cannot and will not go ahead.

In fact, I wonder if the Ministers responsible for making Brexit a success are deliberately being loving useless so that when this eventually makes it to the floor, every man and his dog will be badgering their MPs to vote against Brexit.

Daius posted:

Clearly, the fact that the English public is rightwing is Jeremy Corbyn's fault

The DPRK posted:

Look, I know hope is a lie, but this from the Pounded By The Pound thread has left me with some hope that Brexit cannot and will not go ahead.

In fact, I wonder if the Ministers responsible for making Brexit a success are deliberately being loving useless so that when this eventually makes it to the floor, every man and his dog will be badgering their MPs to vote against Brexit.

Pissflaps posted:

I think the current plan of 'wait for people to agree with us' needs some refinement.

TomViolence posted:

Anarchism is just a form of collective social organisation that rejects hierarchy. The idea that an anarchist society necessitates a power vacuum or a lawless and disordered situation where the strong prey upon the weak gets a lot of currency because people often fundamentally misunderstand what the world would look like without their masters. Anarchism is about the dissolution of arbitrary and harmful power structures, so a self-organised society of that type could still have a rule of law and even some form of the social contract, but one which has been radically revised.

The "human nature" non-argument gets tossed out a lot, but if you don't trust your fellow man to rule himself why on earth do you trust him to rule over others or pick others to rule over him? If "human nature" is as venal and hateful and greedy as people seem to believe, then anarchism cannot be any worse than the status quo in that regard.

Pissflaps posted:

I think the current plan of 'wait for people to agree with us' needs some refinement.

hakimashou posted:

But society self-organizes into hierarchy. Hierarchy is the self-organized society.

We've worked long and hard to build a society where the hierarchy isn't just the hierarchy of who has the most loyal and violent friends and supporters.

hakimashou posted:

But society self-organizes into hierarchy. Hierarchy is the self-organized society.

We've worked long and hard to build a society where the hierarchy isn't just the hierarchy of who has the most loyal and violent friends and supporters.