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   This is it, the month where either Brexit happens, deal or no deal, or Johnson is forced to extend. Join us for the rollercoaster, it won't be as pleasant as this:  John Brown posted:Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. In The News  • In a speech outside 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson states his opposition to calling a general election, and urges MPs not to vote for "another pointless delay" to Brexit. • The government loses its majority in the House of Commons after Conservative MP Phillip Lee crosses the floor to join the Liberal Democrats. • MPs opposed to a No-deal Brexit take control of House of Commons business by 328 votes to 301. Johnson responds by telling MPs he will now push for an October general election. • Boris Johnson withdraws the whip from 21 Conservative MPs who voted against the government, including several former Cabinet Ministers and Father of The House, Ken Clarke, who had served as a Tory MP since 1970. • A bill intended to block the possibility of the UK leaving the EU without a deal passes its first Commons vote by 329 to 300. • All this happens within under a week, the rest of September is marked by Johnson losing 7 consecutive votes and a Supreme Court ruling. • lmao • Lib Dems also exist and Prince Andrew has denied his noncing. • ??? days until Brexit. • Planet's dyin' Cloud. October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles. The Hunt for Red October UKMT September 2019 - A Pro-Roguelike Set In A Dystopian Failed State/A Fish-Abandoning Government UKMT August 2019 - we (UK) should simply invade Ireland peacefully UKMT July 2019 - A more cheerful Brexit/BBC for slutty communists All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) The October Country Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT A Picnic in October Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. 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. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. 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 O’Hagan 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. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. Hunter Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Café – 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 Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam Tooze 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 Oktober Guard (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. The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Or on Discord for other UKMT Chat and Podcast Conspiring https://discord.gg/PAGMDc Lightning Knight posted:
Party Plane Jones posted:Bobby Thompson: don't post in this thread. VideoGames posted:AoF please do not post in this thread anymore. learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Archaeology Hat posted:It's all anecdotal but I feel like my much younger brother's peer group are both much more political and much more left wing than I or my peer group were in uni. Social media, for all its ills, seems to have dragged a bunch of people who might be like that through their own contradictions. Also Lou should release Mambos № 1 thru 4, where are the files!?
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Cluncho McChunk posted:Guavanaut, can you update my CLP in the OP?  The Deleter posted:the second one turns water to blood e: ^^^  lol
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The curtain opens on Conservative Conference Two Thousand and Nineteen, it is MP Sir Desmond Swayne smeared in boot polish. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Sambo Number Five! this used to be perfectly acceptable they had it on the BBC im not racist"
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The TERFs have now managed to logic themselves into a genius position where if you are a male and are not actively transphobic and RTing TERF takes at all times then you are not only anti woman but on the dangerous path to becoming a bearded trans trying to poke your peen into true natal lesbians. It's mostly reminded me that I need to trim my beard.
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Tesseraction posted:jesus christ I think I developed further mental illness just from reading this chart Also notably missing from the list: a cis woman. e: ^^ And the conservatives have openly admitted that the minute that they 'win' on trans and gender issues they're going after LGB people.
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OwlFancier posted:My beard is bigger than all of them. I just realized that Mx Blatant sounds almost exactly like the old homophobic argument that gay men are men that hate women so much that they won't even interact with them and so they act like women and hang around other men. Which I guess makes sense if you can only view human relationships through the lens of seething hatred from a distance rather than the idea that people might actually love one another or enjoy spending close time together. lmao what's Braincels? I'm guessing from the name that it's incels who are convinced that the reason that they are incels is that they are "too smart, and sapiosexual, and women are dumb bitches amirite?" Rarity posted:You'd better all be this nice to me on my birthday, by the way
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Who are you calling a nonce mate?
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I imagine they have fire extinguishers close at hand inside all parts of the Palace of Westminster in case it burns down because all of the wiring is from the 30s and there's red hot steam pipes and sawdust and detritus everywhere and the one thing that MPs will fund is sticking plaster solutions for MPs not burning to death.
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Rarity posted:Yo Guav, can we get the UKMT discord link put in the OP on the regular please? 
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Cheers, have added both.
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VideoGames posted:Note the hashtag. 
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forkboy84 posted:Perhaps it actually means bra incels. I have no idea what that means but I'm sure we can come up with something.
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CGI Stardust posted:the plans for the Irish border solution
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Tesseraction posted:It's most likely about avoiding stuff that can look 'not environmentally friendly'  Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/JohnJCrace/status/1179026112585842689
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You were workin' as a racist in a cocktail bar When I met you ThomasPaine posted:you can't buy alcohol after 10pm in Scotland because endemic alcoholism so everyone runs to get whatever they need just before
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ThomasPaine posted:E: unrelated but I got talking to an Irish woman at a conference a while back and she was very much against the use of the term 'Republic of Ireland' because that's apparently a British phrase and people should either use Eire or Ireland or both. I'd never heard this before, is this an actual thing or was she just being a bit much?
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Random thought: If Johnson gets imprisoned for less than a year and an election's called while he's inside, will we finally have a national conversation about votes for prisoners where it's not immediately dismissed as ridiculous?
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Failed Imagineer posted:As Irish man in mid-30s, RoI is fine for clarification, but it sounds a bit like you're talking about the national team of foot, and you should just say "Ireland". If you say "Éire" you'll get a At least I know the best way to quickly find the nearest McDonalds. ThomasPaine posted:Oh Lord there's a semantic difference between 'Irish republic' and 'republic of Ireland'? My brain can't deal with this.
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, and "Erin/Éireann" I will direct you to the nearest American consulate (i.e. McDonalds)
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marktheando posted:Saying "southern Ireland" is also not cool right? Or this I guess: 
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Eschenique posted:The way he spoke of North and South Ireland the impression I got was that the country was split down the middle Korea style (Am I talking about Ireland or Korea?)
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Comrade Fakename posted:The tree is the Tory logo. Random Integer posted:The tree is the Conservative logo. Darth Walrus posted:That tree is the Conservative logo. 
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As Muammar Gaddafi once said, you can't spell Libya Libel without Bill Bailey.
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mehall posted:From the PYF awful/funny graphs and charts thread - left to right economically and lib dem to lord ashcroft socially?
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Brexit Party wants to abolish inheritance tax? Of course, party of the ordinary working man. serious gaylord posted:Did Priti Patel really get up on stage, bang the drum of xenophobia and complain about 'North London' metropolitan elites.
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quote:We want people to own their own home. No you loving don't.
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radmonger posted:Tbf, they probably do want ‘people’ to own their own home. The catch is in the definition of the words ‘people’ and ‘able’.
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Happy birthday Ms Adequate! Enjoy a TJs from Uppingham Road. (Still not the best TJs  )
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Junior G-man posted:Here's detail on the Irish border proposal Buffer zone covering Dublin, Wales, Southern England, London, Calais, and half of the Low Countries. 
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But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Nice to see we're back in the 'corbyn needs replacing for no apparent reason' part of the UKMT cycle. Motion to swiftly move onwards to monster munch flavour chat. 
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VideoGames posted:Left wing bank holidays?? What?? The 1801 Act came in on Jan 1st, which is already a holiday, and would be roundly ignored by everyone who would just call it New Year's Day or Hogmanay, and the 1801 act isn't really a matter of popular appeal outside of certain bowler hatted communities, so all I can think is that they'd make May 1st a bank holiday after the 1707 Act as an attempt to erase May Day.
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Thinking about it, renaming May Day to Union Day might actually be a masterstroke, but not in the way they want it.
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Rarity posted:So according to Google poggers is an alt-right thing? e: 19 is Adolf 'Itler in the secret nazi code.
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TheRat posted:It was a lot nicer 25 years ago, though. The internet was pure, people are the mistake! Old internet was tech nerds and academics discussing tech stuff. Middle internet was libertarian Western teens. New internet is Black Twitter and socialist shitposting plus a lot of middle internet people who are mad as hell about that. New new internet is bots and gammon comments.
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TheRat posted:Old internet (ca 1995-2000) felt very socialist/anarchist in the circles I was frequenting. Even among the tech nerds. Perhaps especially among the tech nerds. Then the internet got commercialized, but was still the wild west a bit, so it was full of the "can't believe eBay won't let me buy a sten gun this is Stalinism" types, then came Black Twitter and trans folks and discussions of systemic effects, then came the Dork Enlightenment of people loving mad about that because you can't even say words on the internet now, then came  Zedlic posted:Polite stop-and-searches. Amazing.
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