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Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
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hakimashou posted:

Do these socialists plan to clamp down on freedom of the press?

Worse; they might raise taxes.

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Hodgepodge
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Baloogan posted:

we're not eusocial;

thanks to brexit, neither is the uk!

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lorn Wayne posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39944331


interesting strategy labour, trying to convert undecided len-haters who want to prove him wrong.

or in reality nothing matters anywhere and everyone is just a oval office. that's more likely than the 12th dimensional chess theory.

as much as it was for the best, it's sad that macron probably broke the reverse barometer effect on mainstream election predictions

Hodgepodge
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Helsing posted:

:lol:


According to the rest of the article Corbyn's approval ratings improved by a whopping 11 percent since the last election, bringing him up to a cool -30.

Not really sure what Labour is going to do as long as the Conservatives have a vast swamp of right wing white nationalists they can steal votes from but it hardly looks like Corbyn is their biggest problem right now.

imagine if hillary and dubya were the same person i guess

i mean this makes america's attitude towards hillary look positively With Her

Hodgepodge
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Baloogan posted:

hahaha only the decendents of the mega rich atm will ever see luxury space communism.

they will feel really bad about how their ancestors exploited everyone else and then unleashed the horrorphage virus upon the rest when things went to poo poo

Hodgepodge
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Who was the famous science man who said we should fear AI? He's famous and stuff for physics, so he must know what he's talking about regarding something as insignificant as artificial intelligence or whatever. Glory to the Butlerian Jihad.

This whole conversation defies the jihad! Mods?!

Hodgepodge
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he neglected the capitalist class which will own and profit from the robots

once again labour is blamed for the ravages of capital

Hodgepodge
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have corbyn or may stated a position on the terrible and wondrous might of the Orb?

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I was referring to you, too.

Also, Canadians don't have the right to call other people annoying.

according to the "takes one to know one" principle we have more right than anyone else :colbert:

Hodgepodge
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Condiv posted:

smells like fascists

odds on this being a false flag attack to try to bolster support for may like they did in france?

i really want to make a "radical centrists" joke but instead i'm going to point out that this sucks no matter who did it

Hodgepodge
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Homeless Friend posted:

Man, I wonder if there are isis chan boards

finding those 72 virgins has never been easier!

Hodgepodge
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MikeCrotch posted:

Maybe if liberal capitalism didn't lead to such lovely conditions people wouldn't consider communism tempting

It's certainly why people turned to fascism last time

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hakimashou posted:

There's still nearly two weeks until the election though, and it seems like the tories have refrained so far from going hard on Corbyn&Co's compromised associations and sympathy with terrorists, so things could still get ugly.

politics is an ugly game

i'm so glad we can bond now over tory tears

Hodgepodge
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to be fair, it would be an easy policy to enforce

Hodgepodge
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Venom Snake posted:

An anime communist is going to win the dem primary in 2020 and beat trump by 20 points.

Otacon 2020

Hodgepodge
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jBrereton posted:

on the Labour side btw it went like this:

Jeremy Corbyn so roundly backstabbed that he literally couldn't get enough MPs to back him to put him on the ticket for his own re-election without a special meeting of the NEC (more or less our DNC). Then after it was established he was probably deserving of a shot at his own defence, he left the meeting, at which point they put a £25 fee on new members getting to vote after he was gone and couldn't vote against it, lol.

Angela "Screamin'" Eagle then swooped in to try to take out J-Corbz on a "he is bad" (sorta) and hates women (ehh)" ticket and was pushed out of the way by dick pill merchant Owen Smith who had the temerity to suggest he was the real voice for women in Labour (lol) and who was such a charisma vacuum and ideological unknown that he couldn't take out an incumbent with less parliamentary and public support than dengue fever (only recently turned around by this election courtesy of May's shockingly poo poo performance more than owt else).

Didn't things start to turn around when Labour published their platform, though?

Hodgepodge
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jBrereton posted:

Yes it was """""""""""accidentally""""""""""" leaked by I dunno tom watson or some other fuckwit and the public basically said "hmm this is good" much to everyone's surprise

yeah, they seem wedded to the idea that corbyn and his policies are toxic, and if this thread is any indication that's mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy that people buy into and will feed even if actual events contradict it

Hodgepodge
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if labour does win, what are the odds of the party loving themselves over trying to ratfuck corbyn?

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financially racist posted:

they've already been doing this since he took over, they'd kick it up to 11 if he won

good preview of a socialist ever making headway in the US democratic party

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Bryter posted:

John Woodcock has already said he has no intention of supporting a Corbyn government, and it's safe to assume that there's a decent sized group on the right of the PLP who agree but aren't dumb enough to preemptively say so.

lol at a party's own mps refusing to help a victorious pm form government

even here in canada we'd probably kidnap them and leave them somewhere in the nwt to canvas the polar bears

Hodgepodge
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

As funny as a Rees-Mogg PM would be, I'm holding out for a world order in which Berlusconi and Abbott and BoJo all make their comebacks to join with Trump in an Axis of Buffoonery.

Talk like that will summon Rob Ford from his grave.

He'll need a lot of crack after being dead, let me tell you. A lot of crack.

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Vox Nihili posted:

i don't understand this at all. why skip the debate if youre just sending a lackey in your place to get hammered on? the whole point of skipping is to avoid presenting a target. now youve presented a target while also looking like a pathetic coward.

im beginning to suspect that these tory fellows might not be terribly competent

shortly after tory minority forms:

theresa may killed, eaten by fox

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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

you got owned pretty hard there buddy

by people whose argument is insisting he is wrong and owned without actual evidence

like his net worth is over a million, net worth accounts for debt, and (not yet mentioned) having debt at that level of wealth isn't actually detrimental the way it is for a household; his income may not be 1 million/year, but he owns over a million dollars worth of productive assets, which is way better than having 1 million in the bank.

so am i missing something that makes this line of argument anything other than shallow posturing?

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Vox Nihili posted:

their argument is that the 45 y/o british pharmacist who owns a successful company worth ~1 million may actually be in enormous personal debt that overshadows his assets to the extent that hes technically not quite a millionaire. it's quite silly, but it's great fodder for pedants because it can't technically be disproved

like they think this dude has 500k in credit card debt or something

Hodgepodge
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Without nukes, how will Britain pretend it has any relevance?

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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

hey guys it's me i am the anti imperialist leftie who wants to give up the nukes so as to make britain even more dependent on the goodwill of its lord protector the united states of america

the nukes should be replaced by tanks that launch nukes

why didn't stalin think of this??

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Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

Perhaps a revolutionary mobile nuclear missile system, a bipedal tank. The missing link between infantry and artillery.

a missing piece of the military puzzle... a gear, you might say

Hodgepodge
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hahah she's terrified and can't wait for this to be over

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

A vote for conservatives is a vote for megadeath

in America they call it magadeath

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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

if you don't want to be nuked you're a loving idiot imo

dead brain: i don't want to be nuked
lit brain: i wanna be nuked
transcendent intellect: gamma ray burst take my energy
apotheosis: i lust for the vacuum metastability event

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Baloogan posted:

government is the most wildly successful invention ever made
and the proto-monarchy in canada is really stable :shrug:
i like it

it spares us from having a separate executive branch

those always seem to be a clusterfuck

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Helsing posted:

I'm looking forward to the PLP arguing that any Labour improvement in the polls just proves how Labour could have done even better without Corbyn.

Blair is the leader the PLP deserves.

Hodgepodge
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If the UK kicked out all the places that are shitholes, what would be left?

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Agnosticnixie posted:

Usually, when using war to prop up your failing government, the trick is to go on a military adventure abroad, not to cause a civil war at home.

At this point, it might be safest to assume that May doesn't understand this.

Hodgepodge
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what's all this about?

Hodgepodge
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That... that's a thing alright.

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oliwan posted:

Deregulation, feels good man.

i'm feeling the beneficial effects of deregulation right now

oh wait that's not deregulation it's fire

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Vermain posted:

all of her sins have finally caught up to her and there's no move she can make to extricate herself from this or make her bullshit idiot coalition work, she's absolutely hosed

i hear the upper class can be very competitive in britain; she's making good headway on being more hated than blair so i guess she's winning?

Hodgepodge
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my mom's side of the family was offered a castle in england which we were evidently in line for; they told them to gently caress off. i think i understand why now.

my dad's side was irish nobility, but that means 'poor as dirt but you own some of that dirt'

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Hodgepodge
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Yinlock posted:

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/876632782671421442

i appreciate the honesty, i guess

also it's actually not a terrorist, but "a vehicle" so apparently cars have come to life and hate muslims a lot

so are we looking at a transformers scenario or a maximum overdrive scenario here

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