Jose posted:

Lol

https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1190192412079071233?s=19

namesake posted:

Try the internet archive as they might well have been taken down considering...


Don't worry, reality is now so bizarre that he occasionally gets things right.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Go here:

https://www.spiked-online.com/author/munira-mirza/

I clicked on a couple and they have her name on them.

gh0stpinballa posted:

the bbc fact checked an entire johnson speech, found every claim was a lie, yet "lie", "liar" and "lying" don't appear anywhere

forkboy84 posted:

https://twitter.com/berggruenInst/status/1192531997706444800?s=20

Okay, I have question why anyone would want to listen to this loving idiot after he was so definitively proven to be talking shite with his end of history guff, but that headline is very enjoyable. Francis Fukuyama saying "socialism ought to come back" is like Milton Friedman saying it.

Spangly A posted:

deliveroo are getting mashed up by the actual loving wobblies so consider it a good union tax and just hand over a tip wrapped in an IWW pamphlet

Diet Crack posted:

With soft jazz and turbofolk

gh0stpinballa posted:

interesting thread:

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1193214371935203328?s=19

further reading:

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1060245381311795200?s=19

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1060545806300778496?s=19

the fall of the ussr was bad for us too

Lobster God posted:

Got any good reading reccomendations about this?

Pochoclo posted:

Tag yourself I'm the bunch of medals glorifying war right next to the poppy supposed to honor the fallen in senseless war

EDIT: oh wait is that Prince Pederast? lol what's those medals for, noncing?

Ms Adequate posted:

The best thing is being sounded bladder-deep until you entirely lose your drat mind. That's one thing I'll miss about having a penis.

TheRat posted:

I worked as a bouncer for 5 years in a pub that had quite a lot of younger people behind the bar. I'd say more than half of them were completely unable to operate a mop.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I don't know much about PETA but have heard these sort of comments before. What have they done?

Bundy posted:

I think of all things, this might be the one that shoves me over the edge...

https://twitter.com/mojos55/status/1194003641134460929

Vitamin P posted:

Do you think everything that comes from 4chan is inherently /pol/? That there is no wider online culture and language? And if you're gonna be a oval office about it and Jupitareanly ignore that obvious context please do explain why referencing the sex kink of cuckoldry is "racist as gently caress".

I lowkey hate people like you so much. You don't actually give the slightest gently caress about anything real you just see something to be woke about and post the accusation and you think that's praxis.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I would very much disagree with this from personal experience.

I grew up under thatcherite education in the north east, which was basically jamming as many kids into a building to keep them busy during the day. This was before the national curriculum and ofsted and poo poo, so it really was a case of us just sitting there with a teacher at the front and as long as we didn't punch each other too much, the teacher would ignore us and we would ignore them.

The chief example of this was maths, where we were sat reading out of ten year old SMP books with no guidance, and at our own rate. The idea was that you'd finish a book, then go and get the next, and we could work at our own pace. But I blazed through the first two books, got accused of cheating, had to go down a bracket, gave up and stayed on the same book for two years while chatting to my friends, nobody checked up on me, and I was in a class of 30 with a teacher who sat at the front marking the upper sets work, so nobody noticed.

So there are a ton of mathematical concepts I didn't get, and was never tested on until I failed them at GCSE. I guess I was vaguely aware that I was supposed to be asking for help but (a) I was already being bullied to poo poo so there was no loving way I was going to keep standing up to voluntarily go to the front and put an even bigger target on my back, and (b) I found out 10 years ago that I have dyspraxia and ADHD tendencies, and last year that I have autism, which went undiagnosed right up to my second attempt at university, so I was one of the kids who slipped through the cracks and went un-noticed until it was too late.

Consequently there are huge holes in my education. And I know I keep bringing it up but neuroplasticity means that the older you are, the harder it is to learn new information and have it fully integrate with the other information in your mind. I have tried multiple times to pick up maths textbooks over the years, but it's not sinking in, and the information doesn't integrate in the way it does in a younger person. It's like I sit down to learn it, but unless I literally spend time every day doing it, my brain eventually drifts back to its 'crap at maths' configuration.

It also had a massive effect on my prospects. At college, I wasn't allowed to do computer science (the nearest you could get to a coding a-level back then) because my maths wasn't good enough, so I wasn't able to go on to a coding degree. At the point in my life when that qualification would have been free (If I hadn't had to resit my maths GCSE I would have been in the last intake to be eligible for grants), I wasn't able to get it, and I spent ten years pecking keyboards in dull office roles because the nearest I could get was IT as a component of a business GNVQ.

I realise you're going to want to say that this was a bad example because my education went wrong, but that's exactly my point - it's only when you grow up lacking a good education that you can appreciate how valuable a good education is.

I hear the argument that school doesn't have any bearing on adult life a lot but honestly, I tend to hear it most from people who have a functioning educational grounding, but refuse to link that to their schooling. It feels very similar to the privelaged arguments from rich people who say you don't need money to be happy, or from businesspeople saying they got there off their own hard work. Saying education has no effect is glossing over a lot my dude.

Tesseraction posted:

I tried to stop it!!

Demiurge4 posted:

Tesseraction posted:

lol I was wondering why you originally quoted RCP talking about their job that they hate

Junior G-man posted:

ShUt ThE gently caress uP vInCe.

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1194212734407188481?s=20

Tesseraction posted:

https://twitter.com/eilidhmax/status/1194032451804368898?s=19



https://twitter.com/DAVlDBYNCH/status/1194014370516422657

team overhead smash posted:

Canvassing and speaking to the electorate in a marginal is a very good way to be converted to revolutionary vanguardism.

OwlFancier posted:

gh0stpinballa posted:

i think the word tankie is really misused and we should embargo it

Jose posted:

Yeah trots are very different to tankies and trots are the sex weirds

gh0stpinballa posted:

see?? a stalinist isn't a tankie, many stalinists didn't agree with putting down the uprisings

gh0stpinballa posted:

putting some anarchist sects on the list too, they get weird af about age of consent laws

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

There wasn't any Soviet colonialism or imperialism, so no. And rounding up and killing Jews and Roma because they were seen to be (and likely were) supportive of the communists for destroying the Hitlerite Horthi regime isn't good. hth.

HorseLord posted:

I suppose it was "unnecessary" in the sense that pogroms stop when you run out of Jews to kill. That's not an outcome I find acceptable though.

Jose posted:

i see a bunch of mostly rich non-jews have signed a letter in the guardian saying they can't vote labour because of antisemitism

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1195100576067080193

Josef bugman posted:

Mail, Rail, Energy and Water are the other big four renationalisations. Which I am a little sad about as my idea to nationalise weatherspoons was not picked up, but I hope it's in the next manifesto!