Shear Modulus posted:

brexit will never happen. theyll do brexit in all but name immediately ie theyll sell off the nhs to aetna and stuff limeys full of chlorinated chicken and e. coli lettuce by the end of 2020 but they wont call it brexit and theyll pretend that brexit hasnt happened for the next several years until the next election when theyll say that the lettuce has e coli because we havent had brexit yet and you need to vote tory to make brexit happen

gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm not sure I entirely like this angle that since we think that person had to have liked Corbyn's policies, but since we also don't want to consider factors outside of his party, that we're instead running to how personable he is, and further projecting that onto Sanders as being successful because he's a charismatic politician, and not because of his policies

THS posted:

attempting to grapple with Marxist historical theory while a seizure inducing light show is flashed before your eyes and vuvuzelas blast your ears

Shear Modulus posted:

any sort of materialism or other logic rooted in the real world is not taught in schools for a reason

THS posted:

the guardian might be the worst newspaper on earth at the moment

The Puppet Master posted:

genericnick posted:

https://twitter.com/LukePagarani/status/1205488470472441858

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

it was just a online leftist version of the mania libs went for hillary in 2016. at least corbyn had good politics to justify the cult though

Sekenr posted:

Look if the procedure did not produce Jeremy Corbyn as a prime minister, so what? Wasn't there some other procedure that produced say Lenin as a leader of another failed empire? Look at your own thing throughout the 20 century, unions get their thing not by conforming to tradition or whatnot but by pushing their thing. gently caress it, you are 500000 people, you are not obliged to fold your arms and die if you don't want to.

BMX Ninja posted:

I was back home with my folks this weekend in a staunchly loyalist NI backwater. My mum had a few "Defend the Union" leaflets posted through her door. I also saw some posters for emergency meetings in Orange halls/Presbyterian churches put up by the DUP and their paramilitary buddies.

Now I loving despise loyalism. It's a vile toxic culture that I was raised in, and I'm forever grateful for having the opportunity to escape. But I will give it credit for being able to organize mass grassroots movement against anything perceived as being harmful to the Union/Ulster. I've heard that these meetings have been well-attended across the North and they're trying to organize large-scale civil disobedience like they've done in the past. Thankfully these days they don't have a firebrand like Paisley to stoke the fire and turn it into a mass movement.

But lol that the DUP sucking Tory dick has weakened the NI/Britain union and moved a united Ireland decades closer. Boris made a deal that effectively annexed NI and "solved" the backstop problem by giving strong daddy Varadkar everything Ireland wanted and moving all the border problems inside the UK.

It's a remarkable achievement. Getting parliament to agree to a deal that's objectively worse than the one they'd previously rejected on several occasions. And also uniting NI unionists/nationalists, for possibly the first time in history, in agreement that the Brits are always at it.