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Noxville posted:Tbf the ‘roles’ will pretty much just mean they’re the person who speaks to the press about whatever topic, it’s not like they’re actually going to be drawing up policies or anything. Nobody does meaningless bollocks like Chuka though, which is why he gets the top job. https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1101113638969110529
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I've had this human body all this time and only now I learn that you can grab someone else and morph into a glowing ball???
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGr9jCMQpvI just a catchy cartoon song for the kids
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jabby posted:Until we discover immortality though the desired goal is the same - a universe without intelligent life. Mother Ann Lee is just Judge Death with more patience. i like this line
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jabby posted:Nobody does meaningless bollocks like Chuka though, which is why he gets the top job. quote:Third Position is an ideology that was developed in the late 20th century by political parties including Terza Posizione in Italy and Troisième Voie in France. It emphasizes opposition to both communism and capitalism. Advocates of Third Position politics typically present themselves as "beyond left and right" while syncretizing ideas from each end of the political spectrum, usually reactionary right-wing cultural views and radical left-wing economic views.
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serious gaylord posted:Todays UN announcement is not going to help things settle down at all is it? 'announcement' is going a bit far. I've seen more confidence in a statement by first year students about their exam results. jabby posted:Nobody does meaningless bollocks like Chuka though, which is why he gets the top job. THAT'S THE loving POINT OF IT YOU WASTE OF SKIN.
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jabby posted:Nobody does meaningless bollocks like Chuka though, which is why he gets the top job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk1dd1D2Kts
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Someone may have posted this, but VideoGames, have you got to this bit in your Sooty & Sweep re-watch yet? https://twitter.com/archivetvmus71/status/1090310637102747648 Also, this should be in the OP
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Azza Bamboo posted:I've had this human body all this time and only now I learn that you can grab someone else and morph into a glowing ball??? well duh
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Azza Bamboo posted:Just thought I'd point out that he's stopping off at that particular place on his way out. Nando's?
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Someone may have posted this, but VideoGames, have you got to this bit in your Sooty & Sweep re-watch yet? I have not seen that before but it is one of the best things I have ever seen in my life and I love it  Sweep is by far my favourite and good grief all that buzzing from everyone!
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Sweep's family is the original duck army I'm scouse sweep
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Kurtofan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGr9jCMQpvI Extremely same
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jabby posted:Nobody does meaningless bollocks like Chuka though, which is why he gets the top job. I hate these people with all my heart and wish them all the worst.
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Kurtofan posted:Momentum just put out this pretty good video on debunking common antisemitic conspiracy theories
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Miftan posted:'announcement' is going a bit far. I've seen more confidence in a statement by first year students about their exam results. I suppose it was a bit 'errr, maybe, if you'd like, we could err, maybe call this a war....crime????'
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serious gaylord posted:Todays UN announcement is not going to help things settle down at all is it? For anyone unaware https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1101047399299104768
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Azza Bamboo posted:The UN is clearly antisemitic and its leadership must immediately resign The fact that you think this is a joke shows me you've never been to Israel or discussed Israel in the US. One of the parties that are running in Israel right now has 'leave the UN they are antisemites' as one of their policies.
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Guavanaut posted:Lot of words to say 'Nazi'. Reading old Blair and New Labour stuff is fascinating when you know how authoritarian and anti-life their own 'third way' ended up being.
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Jose posted:For anyone unaware Not to worry, I'm sure the investigators will be spoken to so that they can gain a full and appropriate respect for the only democracy in the Middle East (aside from Lebanon which despite it's troubles was still a republic the last time I looked, though certain hawkish pro-Israel folk from western Europe & America often seem to forget that for some reason)
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forkboy84 posted:Not to worry, I'm sure the investigators will be spoken to so that they can gain a full and appropriate respect for the only democracy in the Middle East (aside from Lebanon which despite it's troubles was still a republic the last time I looked, though certain hawkish pro-Israel folk from western Europe & America often seem to forget that for some reason) Hezbollah does complicate things a little. Tunisia may be a better example, unless it went to poo poo while I wasn't looking.
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forkboy84 posted:the only democracy in the Middle East (aside from Lebanon  
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Vitamin P posted:Reading old Blair and New Labour stuff is fascinating when you know how authoritarian and anti-life their own 'third way' ended up being. ...was from the start, I think you mean. That was the point of 'tough on crime', for example.
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Welsh goon comrades, is anything happening in an organised way? My Labour branch seems a bit moribund and I’m thinking of cancelling my dues to Welsh Labour Grassroots, they don’t do anything and the website doesn’t even load any more. Is there an activist community to plug into? I moved lately from Owen Smith’s constituency and didn’t feel like doing much there, although I did let him put a sign at our gate when he asked.
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Darth Walrus posted:Hezbollah does complicate things a little. Tunisia may be a better example, unless it went to poo poo while I wasn't looking. It doesn't stop being a democracy just because some folk voted for some bad dudes. It's a legal political party in Lebanon which has a significant amount of support from the country's Shia population, and for that matter only it's military wing is a proscribed group by the EU & even the UK (although that's in the process of changing here). It's part of the democratic process of Lebanon and while I certainly don't support them (oddly enough, religious extremists tend not to mash very well with my left-wing internationalism) it is what it is. You don't just get to ignore a democracy because some of the people support regressive shits, otherwise America isn't a democracy/republic/don't be a loving pedant.
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Oh dear me posted:...was from the start, I think you mean. pretty sure 'tough on crime' had good polling in key demographics as a selling point, not any overbearing view of crime and punishment in general, New Labour's ideology was basically democracy through indirect state control, led by public opinion. as i understand it, blair's big revolution wasn't so much his turn rightwards (kinnock tried this and failed, again and again), but promising to listen in a way nobody had listened before. it wasn't compromising to a reactionary electorate, it was saying that the customer's always right and that voters are basically customers of the government
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forkboy84 posted:It doesn't stop being a democracy just because some folk voted for some bad dudes. It's a legal political party in Lebanon which has a significant amount of support from the country's Shia population, and for that matter only it's military wing is a proscribed group by the EU & even the UK (although that's in the process of changing here). It's part of the democratic process of Lebanon and while I certainly don't support them (oddly enough, religious extremists tend not to mash very well with my left-wing internationalism) it is what it is. You don't just get to ignore a democracy because some of the people support regressive shits, otherwise America isn't a democracy/republic/don't be a loving pedant. If religious extreme-ism in a political party gets you excluded from being a democracy then Israel is also out and Rojava reigns supreme. Bibi is letting someone who is/was a part of a PROSCRIBED JEWISH TERROR ORGANISATION IN ISRAEL AND THE US into a ministerial post if he wins the next elections soooo e iirc the ministerial job is education as well lol
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this is one thing that a lot of his would-be heirs don't seem to understand, and something that i'm not convinced he understood himself - blair offered a very positive, almost revolutionary way of doing politics and it allowed him to completely rout the moribound tories then he invaded iraq because god told him to, of course, and once it becomes clear that people don't actually want the things they claim to want (perversely high levels of control on benefits &c), the lustre disappears rather quickly - but i think that there's a good reason that blair's biggest black mark is the one thing he did against the popular will
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forkboy84 posted:It doesn't stop being a democracy just because some folk voted for some bad dudes. It's a legal political party in Lebanon which has a significant amount of support from the country's Shia population, and for that matter only it's military wing is a proscribed group by the EU & even the UK (although that's in the process of changing here). It's part of the democratic process of Lebanon and while I certainly don't support them (oddly enough, religious extremists tend not to mash very well with my left-wing internationalism) it is what it is. You don't just get to ignore a democracy because some of the people support regressive shits, otherwise America isn't a democracy/republic/don't be a loving pedant. The complicating factor is not their politics, but the fact that they've got a bigger military than their host country does. That kind of puts a strain on the sovereignty necessary for national democracy.
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Filboid Studge posted:Welsh goon comrades, is anything happening in an organised way? My Labour branch seems a bit moribund and I’m thinking of cancelling my dues to Welsh Labour Grassroots, they don’t do anything and the website doesn’t even load any more.
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V. Illych L. posted:pretty sure 'tough on crime' had good polling in key demographics as a selling point, not any overbearing view of crime and punishment There were a number of authoritarian swings under various Home Secs that weren’t the result of public demand, though. They came from Blunkett’s id. I’d forgotten until lately that Stephen Pollard, author of a lot of Labour’s antisemitism woes, wrote a fawning biography of Blunkett.
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forkboy84 posted:It doesn't stop being a democracy just because some folk voted for some bad dudes. It's a legal political party in Lebanon which has a significant amount of support from the country's Shia population, and for that matter only it's military wing is a proscribed group by the EU & even the UK (although that's in the process of changing here). It's part of the democratic process of Lebanon and while I certainly don't support them (oddly enough, religious extremists tend not to mash very well with my left-wing internationalism) it is what it is. You don't just get to ignore a democracy because some of the people support regressive shits, otherwise America isn't a democracy/republic/don't be a loving pedant. V. Illych L. posted:pretty sure 'tough on crime' had good polling in key demographics as a selling point, not any overbearing view of crime and punishment Also one thing that makes me go as High Tory as Rees-Mogg on Whitsunday is seeing corporate titles in what should be public institutions. Your school doesn't have a President, it has a Rector. It doesn't have a CFO, it has a Bursar. It certainly doesn't have a loving Customer Care Manager. Blair is behind this, I know it. Miftan posted:PROSCRIBED JEWISH TERROR ORGANISATION
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