UKMT General Elextravaganza 2017: Lord Buckethead would have won

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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is: This poll is closed.
Labour	907	49.92%
Theresa May Team (Conservative)	48	2.64%
Liberal Democrats	31	1.71%
UKIP	13	0.72%
Plaid Cymru	25	1.38%
Green	22	1.21%
Scottish Socialist Party	12	0.66%
Scottish Conservative Party	1	0.06%
Scottish National Party	59	3.25%
Some Kind of Irish Unionist	4	0.22%
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian	3	0.17%
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist	36	1.98%
Misc. Far Left Trots	35	1.93%
Misc. Far Right Fash	8	0.44%
Monster Raving Loony	49	2.70%
Space Navies Party	39	2.15%
Independent / Single Issue	2	0.11%
Can't Vote	188	10.35%
Won't Vote	8	0.44%
Spoiled Ballot	15	0.83%
Pissflaps	312	17.17%
Total:	1817 votes

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Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Yeah the nuclear stuff really winds me up. I think they've improved (I'd vote for them if I could, <3 harvie), but there's a reason David Icke did so well back in the day- however given that austerity became the accepted standard economic template it seems unfair to single them out as a party that lacks intellectual rigour.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 07:44

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 21:37

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Macarius Wrench posted:

Serious question: why are such a high proportion of SA users Labour voters?

Why does the bad guy in every American film have a posh British accent?

# ¿ Jun 1, 2017 07:45

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

I dont like violence but I look over there and i just want to smash - graun reporting on a non violence liker.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 09:09

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Barry Foster posted:

2015 got me a new bench PR, so I've high hopes for 2017

I was planning something similar but yesterday I tried preacher curls for the first time in a while, and was inadvertently hyperextending. I woke up with such severe tendonitis that my arms are locked in a 45 degree Barbie posture. In the absence of lifting, as an outlet I am exploring the world of Dutch nutter breathing exercises instead. The stress is real!

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 12:48

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

That's glorious

# ¿ Jun 5, 2017 12:57

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Jakabite posted:

Just made a complaint about that dp terrorism thing, and you all should do. Heads should be rolling for that.

Do you have a form link?

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 10:22

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Really wish she would stfu about clarity.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 22:32

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Off out to see Corbyn give his speech in Glasgow. I've never been so excited about politics, bless you socialist jam grandad.

It was a bit short- will you be voting labour? I told the guy from the times I would regretfully vote snp

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 08:38

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Aaaagh just thought I'd express my pain and confusion at voting snp and in so doing decided gently caress it I'm voting corbyn not Scotlab and I don't care if Dugdale takes the credit.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 10:26

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

This is what I was talking about when I expressed my worries at Labour splitting the vote in Scotland.

Remember: A vote for ScotLab is a vote for Dugdale, not for Corbyn.

How are you so sure? - it's entirely dependent on how you choose to interpret it surely. What I can say for sure is that post election people like flaps are going to argue against corbyn for failing to win back Scotland. As background, my local SNP candidate (Alison Thewliss) is actually a good one, and the Tories are unlikely to win here. My question to you is - what massive transformation in narrative or campaigning has scotlab carried out recently to convince others in the post mortem that dugdale can take credit for my vote, rather than corbyn? Just to be clear, if I was in a swing seat id be all for the SNP. (Sorry about my lovely syntax but I'm phone posting)

Mugsbaloney fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jun 7, 2017

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 12:29

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

forkboy84 posted:

This is dumb. A vote for ScotLab is a vote for the local candidate, the national leader & the overall leader, as well as for the party in general. And if you think the SNP can't lose the seat to the Tories, voting Labour is OK. Not as easy a choice as it would be if ScotLab were lead by someone less useless, but hey ho.

Yeah this is what I'm thinking basically

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 12:34

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

I for one refuse to apologise for Scotting up UKMT just now on the basis that currently Scotland is part of the UK *strokes goatee*

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 12:48

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

The DPRK posted:

Can anyone explain to me at what stage we're failing to apprehend terror suspects?

Because of scary yet weak human rights activists harbouring humanist ideals that insidiously weaken the psychic membrane of britane, the police have been spontaneously falling over on their way to the terrorists houses like non Duracell bunnies. We must enact the blood ritual of Shub-niggath to give them more Powers

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 14:57

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Sinteres posted:

It's kind of interesting how much everyone seems to hate Tony Blair given that he's the only Labour leader to win an election since the 1970's. Obviously the Iraq War was plenty bad, so I get it, but he's still the only winner in four decades.

This is a remarkably shallow observation

# ¿ Jun 9, 2017 06:26

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Well I for one am glad that the stupid transformers comic panel (and the " lazy defeatism masquerading as hardheaded understanding of the world" that it represents) lost this election pretty hard. May we never see it again

# ¿ Jun 9, 2017 06:54

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

I voted labour in Scotland and I don't regret a thing, I don't trust scotlab or the SNP but Jam Stalin is gonna shake up the party, get it back from the neolibs forever, and that's what matters.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2017 10:15

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Please forgive my ignorance but could the pattern of violence in NI be broadly summarised as "Nats target soldiers" followed by " Loyalists target civilians"?

# ¿ Jun 9, 2017 23:39

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Marenghi posted:

Percentage wise the UDA and British forces killed more civilians than the IRA. Not to say the IRA didn't kill more civilians as a whole but they targeted military and paramilitary forces. The UDA targeted civilian Catholics.

I really appreciated the effortposts by everyone upthread by the way. This is what I was getting at earlier. The numbers are completely unambiguous on this. Interestingly, wiki states that the republicans killed more republican paramilitaries than the loyalists did. The inference is that elements of one side at least partially saw themselves as fighting a war against a foreign power, as evidenced by their primary choice of target- what about the other?

# ¿ Jun 10, 2017 01:27

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

jBrereton posted:

Elements of both sides saw themselves as fighting a war against a foreign power, no matter how deranged that opinion may have been.

I know and I'm tempted to leave it at that as I'm running on fumes. But the loyalists didn't target in the same way.

"I presume there is even now a locust-like horde of journos descending on norn iron ready to go rooting through dustbins and under mattresses looking for juicy scoops on the new kingmakers."

This is why this is significant. This conversation is going to be had.

Mugsbaloney fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jun 10, 2017

# ¿ Jun 10, 2017 02:03

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

In America? I think American political discourse might have degraded to the point where we can't actually perform a translation.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2017 10:23

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Well we all know that only things that already exist can exist in the future so good point ronya

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 09:25

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Nthing Mark Blyth- if yer maw's a kipper she might enjoy his anti euro stuff and that can be the wedge for full re-education. I think I've seen everything he's put on YouTube and it's accessible and persuasive.

I also spam them at my idiot friends with mixed results.

Mugsbaloney fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jun 12, 2017

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 10:14

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

But there aren't any histrionic calls for purges? Everything I've read here has been along the lines of "some of them put power before principle but now that it's been shown the two aren't directly opposed in the context of the British public's appetite for leftist policy, let's talk them round". Deselection is a thoroughly democratic way of addressing the remainder.

Also lol at Dan Cona, what a fudd.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 10:43

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Zephro posted:

Austerity-chat: Also the government can borrow money at rates unheard of since all the Bibles were written in Latin* and spending what is basically free money on things like roads, broadband etc is a really good idea since those things will generate returns in the future

*I'm not even joking - interest rates have never been this low in the whole ~400 year history of central banking

Seems like as good a definition of magic money tree as I've heard!

# ¿ Jun 12, 2017 11:43

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

I can't stand all the pro Ruth chat, even relative to the rest of the party- Davidson is objectively not a good person and just because she has some socially modern views (that happen to dovetail neatly with her own circs) doesn't make her any less objectionable, or less likely to for example argue that she wants to help disabled people by ending the patronising state assistance they get as this will encourage them to go and get a job. I also have it on good authority that her flat "absolutely reeks of pish" so make of that what you will lol. A sugarcoated, media competent, Twitter savvy turd is a turd nonetheless.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 08:09

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Redistribute Ur tags or I'll redistribute your jam (please)- also how do tags work

# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 10:05

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Hey cool how did you make that?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 11:03

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Camrath posted:

While we're discussing parent chat...

Awwww! :3 Glad you were able to talk her round. My situation is quite the opposite actually- My mum can't vote because she's a Norwegian immagint, but my dad is solid left (sometimes he's a bit kids-these-days but that's what happens if you teach for a while).

# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 14:12

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

If I lived in one of the recent redevelopments proudly listed on that website I would be opening up lines of communication immediately

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 09:42

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Let's hope that the smell of cooking children doesn't reach Richard Bailey's nostrils.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 10:11

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

I live next to the grand lodge in Glasgow and some fucker practices penny whistle without fail at 9 every week night and combined with the weekend marches it is driving me loving insane

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 21:53

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

communism bitch posted:

Have you got a snooker ball and an old sports sock?

No seagalling I'm afraid- I just stand at my window topless and flex as they pass by. This kills the march.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 05:08

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

3000 deaths- I heard 2'500 but was under the impression that that figure was fairly tenuous and they issued a report specifically addressing (challenging) it? Would welcome anyone who's been paying attention's input.

Mugsbaloney fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Jun 15, 2017

# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 07:25

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Where did thumb people come from, I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 16:19

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Jose posted:

I posted this last night but it understandably got lost in the news about the fire but its a good read. Its really long mind

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-14-suspected-hits-on-british-soil?utm_term=.mx6MyAy4r#.hja7a5aYr

Highly recommended- any idea why don't we want to get into an international diplomatic slapfight with Russia? What's on the line exactly? At this rate we arent going to have any oligarchs left and then where will we be...

# ¿ Jun 16, 2017 09:39

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Irony and sarcasm doesn't translate well to this format.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 14:34

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

I'm so worried for this country I've been playing democracy 3 instead of going outside to see what a socialist government would look like. In 5 attempts I have been assassinated 2 years in by the battenburg group

# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 16:35

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Jfc reading this thread is stressful sometimes

# ¿ Jun 18, 2017 13:36

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Zephro posted:

I like this image, but what's the cartoon it's originally from?

https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1455/78/1455784084223.jpg

# ¿ Jun 20, 2017 09:03

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 21:37

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Keto is good for dropping fat but it's insanely expensive and you'll have a lot of weird meals. It also doesn't go well with weightlifting. Its also very difficult to do properly.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 09:55

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