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I'm super excited about Brexit, which is why I'm leaving the country as we speak and not coming back until Christmas, if at all
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Like Mr. Kravitz, I too want to get fuckin high and eat the sun (with you)
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TERFism is fascism and should be fought like any other kind of fascism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXCyDanffrw
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Oct 1, 2019 11:53
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Foucault is good actually
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Oct 4, 2019 16:09
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Rory Stewart reminds me of Professor Brian Cox if he were a Tory dumbass
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Oct 4, 2019 16:36
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Ah, bollocks, I must have had him confused with some good socialist physicist
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Oct 4, 2019 16:38
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Stephen Hawking. No, Stephen Hawking looked nothing like Rory Stewart e: but seriously, Hawking ruled a lot and I do wish he'd been able to trample Thatcher's toes
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HauntedRobot posted:Have we pointed out in this thread that Rory Stewart's real name is "Rod"? Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more \ 
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wtf e: e2: lmao trust me not to open a drat link Venomous fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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Oct 4, 2019 18:52
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Obviously Boris isn't going to press this issue because if he did, we'd miss out on all of those glorious trade deals with the Yanks
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Replacing the current bunch of Tory ghouls with a slightly less Brexity bunch of Tory ghouls checks out I guess
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sinky posted:Someone edited them down into one film that contained nothing that wasn't in the book. You'll have to steal it off the internet of course. Here's a good and comprehensive guide to Hobbit fan edits without any  involved https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/altklu/a_comprehensive_guide_to_fan_edits_of_the_hobbit/
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Purple Prince posted:So boomers saw this state of politics where both sides agreed on "let's try to make people's lives better" and decided that was some lame poo poo? Tbh by 1979 the Western world was already moving towards neoliberalism, seeing as Bretton Woods had collapsed eight years earlier and Carter had, amongst other things, appointed arch neoliberal Paul Volcker to the Fed. It's just that instead of doing that with the end goal being 'let's improve society for everyone', the defining message from then on became 'let's improve society for the rich, and only the rich, because amassing wealth is good, FYGM, survival of the fittest', and all that. Suppose Callaghan had called an election in 1978 and won a comfortable majority, and Healey succeeded him two years later. Labour likely wouldn't have destroyed the working class and the welfare state in the same way as Thatcher did, but they would've implemented a lot more neoliberal measures with the unions' approval, particularly with regards to nationalised industries. Kind of like how Bob Hawke in Australia was a massive neoliberal when his Labor party was in power, but managed to get the unions on board with his poo poo. While this is going on, Thatcherism would've been discredited as too hard, too fast, not something that wins elections. When the Tories eventually get back into power, they'd probably be lead by a new generation of wets who wouldn't really want to significantly change up Labour's reforms, and they'd likely run on moral panics and social conservatism rather than straight up 'more money for us/gently caress you' as the Thatcherites did. So yeah, in conclusion, we were always hosed.
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Necrothatcher posted:It's ridiculously easy to do this sort of thing. I looked up the address of Kojima Productions studios in Japan, got the lift up to their floor and just started wandering around looking at Death Stranding stuff. Do exclamation marks appear above devs' heads when they notice you?
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Oct 8, 2019 11:28
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Mark Blyth once mentioned that the Germanic word 'schuld' means both 'debt' and 'guilt', based on Calvinist bullshit about how debt is inherently bad or whatever. Considering Germany and the Netherlands are no less rooted in Calvinist bullshit than they were, say, 400 years ago, it's easy to see why folks like AoF are, as they say, less prone to taking risks and thinking life is suffering, because debt is inherently sinful and we must all suffer for whatever reason.
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Junior G-man posted:If I remember correctly, it's essentially because Original Sin and our own bad thoughts and behaviours make this world such that God has to test you through suffering. If/when you make it through in one piece and with the appropriate amount of Protestant Good Thoughts and Works then your reward comes in Heaven. Thank you. As I said, Calvinist bullshit. This is, of course, what all capitalist and tankie justifications for suffering and toil come down to as well, minus the overt religious imagery of course. e: October 9th, 1988: Shadow Chancellor, future Labour leader and fellow Scot John Smith is hospitalised with a heart attack. He'd have heart problems for the rest of his life that'd unfortunately allow Tony Blair to come to power in 1997. 
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The fact that 'small-c conservatism' is still a thing is a testament to how much Thatcherism poisoned English political discourse smdh If you asked someone to define conservatism forty years ago, they'd probably look towards Macmillan or Heath as arbiters of good conservative values, not some batshit ancap like Thatcher Likewise, if small-c conservatives genuinely think Cameron was in any way good at running the country, and all we need is another pro-EU Thatcherite...well folks, hope really is a lie.
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SHAT
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he's going to have someone run like Pheidippides from Calais to Brussels to hand it in, or something like that
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Oct 16, 2019 00:03
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Do they still make Space Raiders?
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Oct 16, 2019 16:39
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there is no hope
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I have no idea what's going on anymore and I'm just utterly confused about everything
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Oct 19, 2019 13:49
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do we want this amendment to pass or e: gently caress. 1/79: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtxxGnOoctw
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Is this election happening and is Labour dead yet? I'm still so loving confused about everything.
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Halisnacks posted:Given that May was such a terrible campaigner, perhaps even worse than anyone could have imagined prior to the campaign, isn’t that a point of concern for Labour going into an election where she isn’t the Tory leader? Is Boris any better at campaigning?
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Oct 26, 2019 18:49
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Strongly agreed that Pete Wishart should be the speaker. gently caress the old boys' club tbh
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Oct 28, 2019 09:24
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Is this the part where we all come together and make leftist agitprop that we can easily distribute across city centres and marginalised areas to ensure full communism on December 12th
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Oct 28, 2019 12:10
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The goose is a good ancom, so yes
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Oct 28, 2019 12:20
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someone should release a goose that'll chase Johnson down the street and start a Corbynite revolution
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I'm in a Lib Dem constituency, and my MP's probably going to lose his seat If I were still in Stirling, I'd vote against the Tory toady there too, but he's probably going to lose his seat too (spoilers: it's going to be 57/59 SNP seats in Scotland) e: Nothingtoseehere posted:Shame I'm not going to be in the country for this one... proxy/postal vote? I'm applying for a proxy vote myself since I'm probably not coming back to Scotland until a couple of days before Christmas, probably Venomous fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Oct 29, 2019 |
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Oct 29, 2019 13:33
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It's 2015 all over again
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Oct 29, 2019 13:46
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I mean, I'm being optimistic tbh Really I just want Alex Cole-Hamilton to lose his seat because he's my MP and he's a Tory wank I don't even like the SNP anymore, or any political party for that matter
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I mean, is Kama McKenzie any good? What do we know about her?
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I remain pessimistic that it'll be a Labour majority, but I really hope it works out for you folks in England
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e: nm
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Oct 29, 2019 23:57
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Why get Chuka to leak it when Jessflaps can do it for us?
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Beefeater1980 posted:Crossing over from the pissflaps thread, but: my normally very Tory aunt in Tunbridge Wells is voting LD this time round and thinks that they will unseat the conservatives. So while I think it’s a good idea to vote Labour in *almost* any circumstances, if it’s a close Tory/LD race and Labour is very very distant third, maybe worth tactical voting on the grounds that 90% likely to be poo poo is better than 100% guaranteed to be poo poo. Tactical voting is bullshit, and the Lib Dems will almost certainly steal votes from the Tories rather than Labour this time. hth e: 3/04; 11th March 2004: the Tories and Labour are level at 35% for the first time in forever. Labour would go on to win another majority the next year. Venomous fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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For all the Scotpol folks ITT: https://twitter.com/HarryJosieGiles/status/1189862333973221377?s=09 https://twitter.com/HarryJosieGiles/status/1189862872089858048?s=09 https://twitter.com/HarryJosieGiles/status/1189864199608029184?s=09 taking into account all this and the SNP's institutional transphobia, this is why I can't support indyref2 if it just means the SNP will become the dominant party of government in an independent Scotland I mean I can't bring myself to vote Labour, but gently caress, the SNP is such garbage
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It may surprise you to find out that elections to the Scottish Parliament are not, in fact, conducted under First Past The Post (FPTP), which potentially allows the election of smaller parties to government such as, for example, the Scottish Greens, who are explicitly not a bunch of TERFy centrists, unlike the SNP I mean, I'm a social anarchist so I preferably want an anarchist Scotland, but I'm thinking pragmatically here
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