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Thanks to Guavanaut for the former former former thread title ("Back to sad wanking and Anti-semitism") inspiration (who neither wanks sadly, or anti-semitically to my knowledge) Thanks to TomViolence for the former former thread title; "They raised a beetroot in the air and shouted gently caress capitalism!" (explanation starts on page 27) Thanks to Teddybear for the former thread title - my word it's been a busy month for thread titles! (explanation starts on page 133) Thanks to BizarroAzrael and Aphex- for their joint effort on the current (FOURTH!) thread title. Explanation starts on Page 216 - Amber Rudd resigns from cabinet, and replaced by Sajid "Egg" Javid!  Following the previous month's ongoing smear campaign against Corbyn, a facebook post of his from 2012 was brought to light, in defense of a mural ("Freedom for Humanity") that was due to be painted over for its anitsemitic imagery. Artist, Mear One, defended his work stating that it was about "class and privilege", depicting both "Jewish and white Anglos", later writing, "Some of the older white Jewish folk in the local community had an issue with me portraying their beloved #Rothschild or #Warburg etc as the demons they are".  Corbyn's defense was that he "intended to make a "general comment" about the removal of public art on the grounds of freedom of speech. He added: "I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on, the contents of which are deeply disturbing and anti-Semitic. "I am opposed to the production of anti-Semitic material of any kind, and the defence of free speech cannot be used as a justification for the promotion of anti-Semitism in any form." While there's no defending Corbyn's severe lack of thought over the image he was initially defending, that spark turned into a conflagration of criticisms, both legitimate and otherwise, culminating in a rally organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the Jewish Leadership Council in protest against anti-Semitism within Labour. While there are legimate criticisms (Ken "Let me tell you about Hitler" Livingstone, newly (& now formally) elected NEC Labour Disputes chief Christine Shawcroft defending a party member who shared holocaust denial material without actual checking what he had shared, etc), the usual suspects are using the occasion as yet another excuse and attempt to bludgeon Corbyn, with there being even a smaller counter-rally being held by the Jewish Voice for Labour arguing exactly that. Corbyn was invited to spend passover with Jewdas (even bringing his own home-grown horseradish to share), and now the various media/twitter/MP pundits are having a meltdown saying that he's still an anti-semite because he's spending time with the wrong sort of Jew (read; Jews who are critical of Israel). Which isn't at all an anti-semitic way of thinking, no sir! And non-Jews deciding who are the "Good" Jews, and the "Bad" Jews. Short version; the veil has slipped, and it was an execuse to criticise Corbyn all along, (which is not to say antisemitism is an issue to be ignored), and also the more I hear about Jewdas, the more I get on board with them; https://twitter.com/geoffreyjewdas/status/981148615942004736 Like, they're really loving good: https://twitter.com/geoffreyjewdas/status/981476569783980033  Cambridge Analytica Another ongoing shitstorm, Cambridge Analytica LLC is a consulting firm specialising in data mining, and data analysis, controversially using that collected data to target individuals and intending to influence their voting intentions. And setting honey traps to discredit opposing individuals in elections, allegedly. Oh, and that data is from Facebook because of some app that allowed it access not just to the user's data, but their friends network, also. The CEO Alexander Nix, was suspended following undercover footage of him telling prospective users of the firm their MO for discrediting potential opponents in an upcoming election (honey pots, bribery stings, and prostitutes, basically).  Alexander Nix, doing a poo poo Bill Nighy impression. They're still a dirty tricks brigade, but their actual impact and influence on world elections and events is questionable - nevertheless, investigations are ongoing, with a recently approved court order to remove documents and files from their HQ to investigate any abuses.  Brexit In lighter news, Theresa May successfully pulled off a full Brexit, solved the issues of EU-UK trade tariffs, a solution to the Irish border that satisfies both the ROI and NI, and has even negotiated trade deals with the rest of the world in preperation for the day of our split with the EU.  ... Alright, I had to get at least one April Fool in. As per usual, Brexit continues to Brexit. There's one year left for the deadline, and May et al. are still quibbling about stuff that the EU said was fixed and unchanageable from day uno . As for an actual poisson d'avril, fisherman's friend, Nigel "Salty Seadog" Farage took part in a demonstration against EU fishing quotas not allowing us to overfish entire areas of the sea, by...throwing a dead fish into the Thames. That'll show 'em.  A very curious turn of events, given that Farage in his capacity as an MEP was part of the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries, and only ever attended one of fourty-two meetings, and neglected to vote on any legislation that would have improved fishing quotas or sustainability. For more Farage fun, see below. ---  A Catalogue of Knavery  UKMT March 2018 - To Serve Gammon Man UKMT Feb 18 - Goverment Clowns DTF UKMT January 2018 - ++Knighthood for Loser Clegg++ Previous UKMT threads Poisson dAvril Europol Thread Huntigowk Day Scotpol Thread I'd prefer Spaghetti trees to Spaghetti trains Trainchat Thread It's labelled "JOKE", with a big arrow pointing at it, so you'll know it's a JOKE. Political Cartoons Thread "Have you heard the one about-" BYOB: UKMT "I need you to find me a left-handed microphone." Some choice left-leaning podcasts: Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae OHagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. Talking Politics - More centrist than left, a drier but indepth look at politics from a journalistic stance. Numerous guests (Mostly melts). Left Coast - LA based covering mostly US leftist topics and news. Various guests, with occasional from Trashfuture and Chapo Trap House. Worth a listen. Farage Against the Machine - Nigel Farage talks Sensible Politics For A Sensible Britain. Not Racist. Joke Books Some choice literature: Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance Peter Linebaugh Libertarian Communism Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Cafι Malatesta The Method of Freedom Malatesta In Praise of Idleness Russell Political Ideals Russell Declaration Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History Domenico Losurdo God and the State Bakunin The Conquest of Bread Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution Rosa Luxemburg Violence Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital Karl Marx and Goons Gonna Prank 'em all! (thanks feedmegin) quote:I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land. No Laughing Matter The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto) - Collected UKMT Effortposts. Many thanks to the contributing posters. Share the Japes in synIRC #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). --- Jacob Reece-Mogg accosted by paups, 1st April, circa 1840  Guaranteed to give you a Hard Ebrexion.  (Many thanks to A Buttery Pastry & Not Operator) From Jewdas twitter feed:  (Thanks Katt) Pochoclo uncovers a very British plot. (Thanks Pochoclo, and JeremoudCorbynejad, and Dickie Tinypeen of the Daily Heil) VideoGames posted:I have made a helpful Lib Dem graph based on my favourite informational graph. Snooping as usual, I see (Thanks Cultural Marxist) I for one, welcome our new Home Seggretary. (Thanks Tijuana Bibliophile) Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Mar 31, 2018 23:50
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Posting in March in the April thread and don't give a fuuuuuuck.
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Firos posted:This thread is far too left wing. I propose a splinter thread dedicated to radical centrism, with the OP being David Miliband.
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I would describe george osborne as a very artificial egg based frivolity lacking any real substance, it's true.
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People who get paid to have opinions are saying that this thread is unelectable. I vote we become more like our opponents to ensure electability.
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Mar 31, 2018 23:59
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Gorn Myson posted:I think you mean "The English Macron", George Osborne. I misread this as "The English Macaron". Make of that what you will I guess.
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Apr 1, 2018 00:02
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Macarons make me very angry as they are wholly inferior to almond macaroons.
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Apr 1, 2018 00:05
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Now I have the Macarena stuck in my head.
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:Now I have the Macarena stuck in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTYSbnaSqs In a few years time this will be in the intro of an Adam Curtis documentary with Burial playing over the top
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New scandal as Jeremy Corbyn endorses antisemtic macrame.
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Apr 1, 2018 00:13
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The best macaron
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I welcome the new thread title: finally the internet has a safe space for sad, Jew hating wankers.
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Thanks Ants posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTYSbnaSqs kind of like this i guess
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quote:As Labour struggles to quell a renewed outcry over the issue, Sir David Garrard, who has donated about £1.5m since 2003, said the party he had supported no longer exists i for one am shocked that a socialist party no longer exists for a man who donated over a million to it
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In the spirit of today I will endeavour to post this month as if I were an anarcho-capitalist. This will be my only warning.
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One-liner jokes don't count.
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Tesseraction posted:In the spirit of today I will endeavour to post this month as if I were an anarcho-capitalist. This will be my only warning. Hmm, interesting. Tell me, have you ever been to Greece?
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Tesseraction posted:In the spirit of today I will endeavour to post this month as if I were an anarcho-capitalist. This will be my only warning. Why are you providing your posts for free, slave?
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big scary monsters posted:Hmm, interesting. Tell me, have you ever been to Greece? I do not wish to discuss my time in Greece and will consider any further inquisition as a violation of the non-aggression principle.
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Darth Walrus posted:Why are you providing your posts for free, slave? I will ignore your final mockery, and instead refer you to the terms and conditions by which we enjoinder to post on this forum; forthwith I posit I do not do so for free.
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Apr 1, 2018 01:35
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According to the beeb, esteemed journal the Star is running with a story that jihadists are planning to attack the world cup. With bomb laden drones, and suicide bombers on hoverboards. Well, I suppose we have to send someone. If this an April Fool, because it was discovered by their own 'probe' it's pretty loving badly judged, given, you know, the world.
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Tesseraction posted:I will ignore your final mockery, and instead refer you to the terms and conditions by which we enjoinder to post on this forum; forthwith I posit I do not do so for free. I hate this gimmick and also you
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Trickjaw posted:suicide bombers on hoverboards If real, owns.
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Ground floor of the April thread, looking forward to the hilarious dysfunction this month brings. e; posted this at 4:20 forums time, blaze it
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I'm surprised that the left wing of the Labour party doesn't have enough guts to go on the attack instead of bending over backwards to appease an obvious smear campaign. They should be hammering the Board of Deputies over horrific stuff like this: https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/979727351511769088
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I was on holiday for the middle of March and missed basically everything that happened after that (still catching up with the last thread). Not to kick things off again, but about this 1) does anyone actually care this time or do we expect it to blow over again? I realise this one's a bit different given he actually said a thing rather than it being a vague accusation of *something* happening somewhere in the party 2) has anyone yet figured out a way of saying "loving bankers  " while naming specific bankers to be mad at, who happen to be Jewish, without coming off like a tinfoil hat nazi?e/ only just noticed it's from 2012, how loving desperate for a scoop do you have to be Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Apr 1, 2018 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:I was on holiday for the middle of March and missed basically everything that happened after that (still catching up with the last thread). Not to kick things off again, but about this fresh Corbyn/antisemitism thing: 1) Internal polling suggests that it hasn't really harmed Jezza among labour members, but we'll just have to wait and see what it's done to perceptions amongst the broader electorate. 2) Targeting egregious individuals or nebulous elites, while an effective left-populist message, is probably the wrong approach. The reason xenophobia, antisemitism and assorted other crankery have so much traction is due to the failure of politicians and journalists to join the dots and offer an actual structural critique. Jezza's messaging around "a rigged economy" is probably the closest any mainstream politician's come to recognising that the problems are top to bottom and embedded in the system, rather than the fault of folk devils and hate figures, so he should probably just keep hammering that. I mean, yeah, there's gonna be some concern trolling about even that message, but gently caress anyone disingenuous or stupid or antisemitic enough to equate anti-capitalism with antisemitism.
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Apr 1, 2018 06:46
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I wonder about Israel shooting at peaceful protesters (at a protest organised well in advance) after a week of a very obviously organised campaign to smear a politician and party with form for not toeing the "Israel - good, all others = bad" line, as anti-semitic. I mean if we want to talk countries stirring up online controversy against critics, Russia are newbies.
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I would say that rather overrates the importance of our approval to Israel. For one thing, on border control the UK has the sea on much of its borders and the Good Friday Agreement where it does not, and tends to uphold such porosity as politically realistic for the continent no matter how much it annoys them (our degree of good faith in this insistence can be seen in, e.g., our ferocious and largely successful insistence that the Calais migrant crisis remain in Calais). So we were always going to be snotty about opening fire on border protesters, however violent. For another, France is right there, and Melenchon is positively unrepentant.
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Maybe Ireland should just annex North Ireland and there can be a proper sea border to the EU.
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TomViolence posted:Ireland should annex the entire UK, boiling the piss of both Irish nationalists and British unionists by giving them both what they claim to want, but just not... not like that Ireland, Scotland and Wales carve up England like a turkey and now Brexit is a non issue. This Troika if power not appoints Corbyn as governor of England.
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Jose posted:i for one am shocked that a socialist party no longer exists for a man who donated over a million to it Can't believe this tax dodger who donated money to Thatcher's Conservatives and hasn't donated money to the Labour party since Corbyn came to power is now no longer donating money to the Labour party.
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Chucked my tv licence earlier this week and now it seems I'm looking at these forms that will make me a member of the labour party if I send em some dosh Lazy activism is pretty cool tbh
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Same. Also interesting how after tutting about how facebook needs to do more to combat russian psyops the broadcast and print media are apparently allowed to uncritically report unverified statements online despite a known history of Russia doing exactly that to stoke internal division.
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Happy easter UK, don't know how you do it in the UK. Over in this part of Finland (the swedish speaking part), easter saturday means kids coming dressed up as witches asking for candy. Kinda like our halloween (so we don't need another one in autumn!). Then we burn a bonfire in the evening, also some activies like a lottery and sales stand (coffee, grilled sausages, hot lemonade, homebaked stuff etc). It's usually set down at the lake near my parents house. Due to the harsh winter and lack of good fuel it wasn't very big and didn't burn that well this year, the lake is still frozen too. The snow on top has a frozen crust that make for good play material, the kids can walk on it but we just fall through unless you got snow shoes. IIRC actual igloos are built using snow using this kind of snow. 
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