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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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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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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

forkboy84 posted:

Define regressive left

Those who seek to limit and curtail the freedoms of a individual in order to meet their collectivist/marxist aims. Those will use underhanded means to try and destroy ideological opponents while claiming its in the name of equality and tolerance.

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

forkboy84 posted:

Anyone who picks the freedom to say friend of the family over the freedom from starvation & homelessness is an arsehole imo.

The problem with this that it starts by limiting a persons speech because its offensive till you get to the point where even thinking certain things makes you guilty of a thought crime?

You should be free to say as you please but not free from the consequences your words cause

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

OwlFancier posted:

In which case I trust you're fine with the consequence that talking poo poo gets you hit.

Violence should not be used on either side

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

forkboy84 posted:

How about if the consequence is if someone sticks your pretend slippery slope up your urinary tract?

Since its a concept I'd imagine it would be hard to shove down my urinary tract

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Oberleutnant posted:

Everybody should be able to say whatever they want! It's a free country after all!

*cops, bosses, regularly using racist and homophobic insults against people legally and economically subordinate to them, safe in the knowledge that they're largely protected from any retaliation or consequences from their victims*

Whew, thank god for freedom! God bless america and god bless the bill of rights and the constitution!

*rides a bald eagle into a burning pile of pigshit*

This is more to a lack of accountability with American Law Enforcement than the freedom of speech

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Oberleutnant posted:

I propose a compromise. Everybody can use all the racist (and other) slurs they like, and everybody else is free to knock their teeth out.
A slur is an attack, after all, with no purpose in a debate or a discussion except to insult and hurt people. So it's morally equivalent to a kick in the teeth.

I see you are a part of a vast dentist conspiracy to make people but false teeth

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Oberleutnant posted:

So you accept the convention that some people shouldn't be able to say whatever the gently caress they want? Because some social dynamics are unequal, and people can (and often demonstrably do) abuse positions of power to be spiteful and hurtful to people in technically-legal, but definitely immoral ways, yes?
Words are not dead, empty things. They have power, and (used spitefully) can cause tremendous damage. People should be held accountable for their use of language, particularly if they occupy positions of power and authority.

You mean I agree that police officers saying racial and homophobic slurs should not be protected from the consequences of their actions?

Yes

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Namtab posted:

I've said this before, but if the far right you support with bollocks like bleating about "cultural Marxism" and "the regressive left" win, they will come after you. The autistic are no safer from the fash than the browns or Jews. You are advocating an ideology that ultimately hates you.

Both sides are wrong as they both seek to curtail my freedom

I'd never support the far right but that doesn't mean I don't think the far left are going to protect in the long run either

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

SteelMentor posted:

Your freedom to scream the n-word and poo poo on Autistic people (despite allegedly being Autistic yourself, that's some good internalised hatred right there).

Please gently caress off.

Just because I have the freedom to do such an action doesn't mean I should morally make that choice nor would I want to.

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Raeg posted:

Focus groups really helped Ed Miliband and Hillary Clinton so I can see his point.

Ignoring most of middle America while pandering to special interest groups lost Hillary the election

That and the whole Bernie Sanders Philadelphia Screwjob

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Irony Be My Shield posted:

I think it was more complacency and trying to run up the score rather than secure the states she needed to win. She won the popular vote, and I think if she targeted campaign resources better she could have won the election.

Ignoring the Rust Belt was her achilles heel

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot
seems legit

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Regarde Aduck posted:

These "patriots" only seem to care about economics. And generally with no level of expertise. Where is the patriotic support for human rights, low levels of homelessness, low prison numbers, equality rights etc. Where is the progressive patriotism?

Maybe you would have low levels of the homeless if our minimum wage wasnt higher than Germany and Japan's minimum wage

Pissflaps posted:

He seems to have a strong community spirit and care about the people who live in his town.


This, the guy could just sell up and move to Eastern Europe if he was in just for pure profit

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Wheres the posh asian guy?

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

forkboy84 posted:

And then also do that on every other website.

Excuse me but the Guardian BTL comments are quite the salt mine these days

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot
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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

jBrereton posted:

S'right, it's why nobody is stabbed for political reasons in the 'States.

They prefer to use guns and bikelocks

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

kingturnip posted:

Well, I'm off to bed. I'm hoping there'll be something more useful being reported by the time I wake up.
And in the meantime, let me point out that 6188 people died of suicide in 2015 in the UK, compared to 0 from islamic terrorism. This year's seen a bit of an uptick from islamic terrorism, but it's still way behind suicide.
Basically, you are a far bigger threat to yourself than a few guys in the back of a Ford Transit will ever be.

Hol up its almost like a person can be worried about the rate of suicide and Islamic terrorism at the same time.

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Namtab posted:

Deport the Tories? Finally an idea I can get behind!

*blocks your path*

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Namtab posted:

I saw him in that Monty python sketch. He's dead now.

Was the seventies the golden age of the nonces?

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Darth Walrus posted:

Don't worry, I'm sure we'll hear about our present batch in forty years' time when they all start dying.

How much noncing has James Corden been up to?

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

ThomasPaine posted:

Really Corbyn needs to just refuse to stop campaigning and hammer May on this. The sad but true fact is this poo poo is a direct consequence of the kind of politics she represents. He'll be attacked for 'politicising' a disaster but people need to appreciate that this isn't a disaster but a political event that occurs in a context. Both May's foreign policy and her cuts to the police are directly linked to it, and the Conservative government is plainly unable to protect its citizens despite all the 'strong and stable' rhetoric. I hope this becomes obvious to people as election day approaches.

The Conservative Party is about as strong and stable as wet cardboard box smelling of cat piss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ord5aX_w1rQ

Meanwhile Styxhexenhammer is back with a fresh take

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Trickjaw posted:

Thank God he is here to advise us. Who is this arsehole? I wouldn't dream of making critical videos about a country I knew nothing about, I got about three minutes and decided it was a waste of time. Why has he got a Roman standard behind him

Get your haircut, son.

E: some moron is weighing in on BBC that there was drinking alcohol and a copper dead. I wouldn't trust, he just seemed glad to be on telly, like that tit Gerald earlier.

Paul Joseph Watson for turboedgelords

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

thehappyprince posted:

corbyn should absolutely go hard on may buddying up to saudi arabia and turkey imo.

it's not just about police cuts, although he should go hard on that too, but he should talk about getting to the root of the problem and who is funding and supporting isis, like the bob crow brigade said.

Free Kurdistan lads when?

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Ratjaculation posted:

I left my washing in the rain, worst night ever.

:cripes:

enjoy washing your clothes again or having your clothes have a faint metallic smell i guess

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Oberleutnant posted:

The world is going to hell.

The world is hell and we are all the subjects of the demiurge

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

BoneMonkey posted:

So a friend of mine has been talking to me about his political beliefs, and I have questioned him down from a Tory to a libdem.

But while he's starting to see all the problems with capitalism, he's asked the dreaded question, what does a socialist society look like?

The problem being is that I don't know.
Anyone got any good YouTube videos or links to what a good socialist or Communist society looks like?

I basically went something something worker coops something mondragon, I'll get back to you....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ove_aHOO3Tc

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtqbk9pgPXw

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

jBrereton posted:

crystal clear


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdyerV8bfeA

Were the Fishermen guilty of manslaughter

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

SteelMentor posted:

gently caress off.

No

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Julio Cruz posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with you.

I stared too hard into the abyss

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Serotonin posted:

gently caress off. You aren't edgy, you are just an insufferable pathetic little prick

Welcome to the internet

Please enjoy your stay

No refunds

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Laradus posted:

Is More Always Better?

Yes

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Angepain posted:

maybe it's the residual sleep deprivation from staying up all night on Thursday without having planned to but I still can't quite believe any of this actually happened

god bless the good ship UKMT and all who sail in her



Soon

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Thanks Ants posted:

Perhaps the worst take from all of this is ":qq: Why couldn't all of you young people just think about the country's future rather than only about yourselves, you've ruined our chances of Brexit success".

There isn't an :ironicat: large enough to respond to that with.

George Soros has paid off the young people to make them work against Brexit so he and his banker cronies can keep the globalist banking cartels secure

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Whatever happens, it will at least be funnier.

Can't wait for the based DUP to start rolling back the clock on the human rights on Gay People and to start outright shooting people for Line Dancing :smuggo:

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

paternity suitor posted:

Same. But there have been a few glimpses of the same coming out in the states. Not like this though

Can't wait for DNC screws Sanders out of the nom 2: electric boogaloo

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

TheRat posted:

Don't do this.

fine

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot
An non-shitpost for once

Why doesn't the government hold the polls on a Saturday instead of a weekday when more people at home from home and could actually vote without having to rush?

Why doesn't the government have polling over a two day period so it can gather more votes?

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Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

waffle posted:

I don't think the necessary take home from this is everyone is FYGM, though. When someone feels they are getting paid less than others, they should dislike that situation and try to get paid more, that's the whole point of trade unionism. Those two options as presented are kind of biased towards the worst possible interpretation.

Guess a third option to really see if it's FYGMism would be to ask "would you prefer to get paid £50K while everyone else £25K, or everyone get £60K?"

Always bank on the worst of human nature to shine through

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