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HorseLord posted:"tankie" here used to mean "person who says factual things" No, tankie here refers to your Hoxha-esque zeal against revisionism and your history of defending Stalin. None of this stops you from being right on this though: most of the thread is somewhere between social democrat and democratic socialist.
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Nov 1, 2019 08:03
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Holy gently caress those cunts get everywhere.
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Nov 1, 2019 10:34
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Continuity RCP posted:I mean there's a list of LM issues and their contents and her name isn't on any of them. Probably used a different name I had to check Powerbase, because it's generally a great resource for keeping tags on those ex-RCP gobshites. Mirza is one of the younger members, probably joining up in university in the late 90s, she started working for Culture Wars in 1999 but they have no listings for her writing in LM. So to be honest, she seems to have hooked up with them after they overthrew their Trot remnants.
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HorseLord posted:I've never been chased out of UKMT, and in fact i don't know who you are TinTower hasn't posted in UKMT in ages but she is still active on other parts of the forum. Where do you stand on the Katyn massacre?
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Nov 1, 2019 11:06
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Continuity RCP posted:It's specifically LM articles I was looking for. Basically I don't think she ever actually wrote for that magazine or that the RCP were a trot group when she was associated with them This is correct as far as I can see.
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Nov 1, 2019 11:30
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This is relevant to nothing but I'm watching Giant Bomb's video on Death Stranding & it's been described as a mix of American Truck Simulator & QWOP. This has nothing to do with UK politics, I just needed to write this down because it's very good.
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Nov 1, 2019 12:11
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SpaceCommie posted:Quick note to all the brain pill people in here, if your SSRIs run out and your repeat prescription got hosed up don't just give up and stop. Yeah, please, please do not go cold turkey on SSRIs, it is very dangerous. From personal experience, the warnings aren't kidding around.
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Nov 1, 2019 12:32
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Nov 1, 2019 15:27
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Really enjoying the rugby.
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Nov 2, 2019 11:50
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ronya posted:whether or not the local hospital charges fees on its damned car-parks or even just reserves it all, every single one, for staff, or steamrollers the whole thing for a dining area or a creche or a 12ft statue of William Beveridge, seems like an ideal question to devolve to the local trusts LOL no That's a very Tory solution forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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Nov 2, 2019 12:02
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Borrovan posted:Wait I thought that was If ronya is making a joke then they have the driest sense of humour I've ever come across.
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Braggart posted:It's weird how Tories can never quite get human customs right, even with the best image consulting money can buy. He went to Eton, he should absolutely know how to wear a rugby shirt, the daft twat. Jedit posted:You don't think people should have the right to own their own home? Yes OP. Private property was a mistake.
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Nov 2, 2019 15:48
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Bundy posted:Land ownership as a concept still makes me I'm pretty sure everyone who posted in the failed Pissflaps election thread got one, so it's your own fault 
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Nov 2, 2019 16:07
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Tenebrais posted:The deputy speaker (Ken Clarke?) is standing in for him until a new one is elected. I assume that'll happen after the GE. Lindsay Hoyle Ken Clarke is Father of the House.
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Nov 2, 2019 16:23
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Chucat posted:Boring as hell question about terfs that's been on and off bugging me for the last week. You tell them to gently caress off with trying to legitimise their bigotry..
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Nov 3, 2019 10:58
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Chucat posted:This is hard when they're a work colleague, but I will keep it in mind for when it happens online. Just lol if you haven't already threatened to punch a colleague over some dumb poo poo they said (long time ago now, in around '05, one started raving about Iraq & how we should nuke the savages & turn the desert to glass & I didn't take that very diplomatically)
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Nov 3, 2019 11:11
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jiggerypokery posted:Bummer. I miss flaps. You should see your GP for a referral to a mental health specialist for that. (It's okay, my brain is broken, I'm allowed to make this joke)
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Nov 3, 2019 21:07
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His Divine Shadow posted:Hey slightly OT but I think this is the best place to raise the question. And it's not really about the article either, just this bit that popped out at me. No, this is mostly just poo poo thrown at us by capitalism rather than a choice
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Nov 4, 2019 08:31
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Guavanaut posted:
I've always been for a blanket legalisation of it all, even on drug policy I am against reformism. Safer for end users getting stuff made by the state or whatever rather than dodgy gangs cutting your smack with anthrax (thing that happened in Glasgow a decade ago, there were several deaths) or other poo poo you don't want to inject into your veins or shove up your nose. Reduce prison numbers, reduce revenue source for violent gangs terrorising places like Mexico and El Salvador and Colombia. Create a revenue source for farmers in often poor countries. Drug policy is generally the worst kind of populism.
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Nov 4, 2019 11:21
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Borrovan posted:Totally off topic, a company is loving with some comrades of mine & it's become apparent that they're committing a criminal offence under the Companies Act - does anyone know who the appropriate public authority to shop them to is? Guessing the pigs wouldn't gaf If you don't get a better answer, I'd get in touch with the CAB.
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Nov 4, 2019 11:38
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Junior G-man posted:https://twitter.com/C4Dispatches/status/1191065277645111296?s=20 It's fun that they didn't seem to care that much about SpAds in the Blair and Cameron years.
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Nov 4, 2019 13:10
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mfcrocker posted:Goodbye, Penis PenisPenis https://twitter.com/JWoodcockMP/status/1191352598147878913 1) Penis PenisPenis is punching above his weight by several classes. 2) Isobel Hardman is the Spectator writer who tweeted that she didn't like Rod Liddle's racism but nothing to do with me guv and liberals from the Graun rallied to her defence and insisted she was very brave despite the fact she knew what the Spectator is like considering Taki has been employed there for 42 years.
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ronya posted:the naive versions are idiotic No poo poo, really? The neoliberal doesn't like the theory that says workers contribute more than they earn, whom among us could have guessed? Not exactly a stunner it's not a key part of PPE courses. HJB posted:Fleetwood Mac did a lot to dispel nominal gender norms back in the day. Show people a picture - one of these people is called Lindsey, the other is called Stevie. You can go your own way. Just want you to know how much I hate you far reminding me that Fleetwood Mac existed and we're dogshit. You swine.
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Should clarify, they were fine until Peter Green left, then they turned into soft rock tedium
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Nov 4, 2019 19:09
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Failed Imagineer posted:Although that's the common opinion from dads who read Melody Maker, it's actually the opposite way around. If I never hear Albatross again in my life that's fine If you want to get into my most dad-like music taste, sit me down and put on some trap and watch me stare off into the middle distance utterly befuddled. VideoGames posted:It was time. Ms Adequate posted:Sorry, hold up, cancel all other discussions. Mostly I like horrible unpleasant music and Fleetwood Mac do some of the most offensively inoffensive middle of the road soft rock. Similar feelings about Journey, Toto, Chicago, Boston, Hall & Oates, etc. It's just very much not my vibe. Not to say I don't like music with melody & that, but it's not that sort of thing.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Can ronya or someone smarter than me point me to a good explanation of LTV? I think it's that if you vote labour, that's good value The basic idea is pretty intuitive, actually pre-dates Marx to Smith & Ricardo & possibly even further back. To quote The Wealth of Nations, "The real value of all the different component parts of price, it must be observed, is measured by the quantity of labour which they can, each of them, purchase or command. Labour measures the value not only of that part of price which resolves itself into labour, but of that which resolves itself into rent, and of that which resolves itself into profit." You earn £10 an hour for your employer because they can afford to make more than £10 an hour from your labour. That surplus value should go to the worker rather than capitalists. It's obviously a lot more complex but as a starting point, that'd do. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Nov 4, 2019 |
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radmonger posted:A classical liberal would say there is ‘coercion’ happening , and this is morally wrong, even if effective. Someone hasn't read Liberalism: A Counter-History. I know we've not been going on about so much lately because it's in the OP and all that, but c'mon.
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Nov 5, 2019 00:17
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lol at accusing her of lying because of a glitch on their backend. Quality people.
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Nov 5, 2019 11:02
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https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1191678374999146503?s=20 Jo Swinson just confirming what we all already knew, she's a Tory.
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Nov 5, 2019 12:32
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1191696425463230464 Why did I worry that my Internet posting would preclude me from being elected when dude who went on the radio to blame rape victims clearly doesn't think that'll be a problem
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Nov 5, 2019 13:47
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Jose posted:are you outing yourself as a tory? MODS THIS IS ABUSE
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Nov 5, 2019 13:49
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I like how she's pissed that her big story got quashed rather than an institutional coverup of an elite paedophile ring but 
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Nov 5, 2019 16:29
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Barry Foster posted:But of a weird flex bud, I'd be exactly as hosed off if I had mountains of evidence about a literal paedophile conspiracy and it got quashed. From that clip I got the vibe she was worried more about not getting her big scoop rather than the actual effects of the story on the victims. Because if I had a big story like that and I had the evidence she claims and my employers were claiming it's not news I'd have done something with it. Pass it on to a less craven outlet. Write a loving book. Something more than just give up and then moan years later that I lost my scoop. But  not going to die on this hill, if no one else gets that from the clip then whatever.
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 Had to share this tasteful piece of merchandise my football club have put out.
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Jose posted:if anyone wants the audio There's something about the recording quality which makes this sound like Andrew Bridgen is in fact Peter O'Hanrahanrahan
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sinky posted:Stolen from USPOL This is a take so staggeringly bad that it really beggars belief. Also, fair play, that last line "I just need to pull up my socks...oh wait I don't have socks" is very funny
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Doccykins posted:James, Cleverly avoiding questions from Kay Burley One of his better media appearances.
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Tiger Millionaire posted:Extremely weird they're making her the Face of the party, understandable about BoJo because he's been in public spotlight for years and years, and same with Corbz as he represents the ideological shift away from centrist Labour and has the voting record to prove it. When Chuka said their campaign should put a vain, Tory-loving narcissist as the centre-point he was really disappointed when they picked Jo. Debbie Does Dagon posted:That's pretty much just the Democrats "when they go low, we go high", which in their case just means roll over and let the Republicans gently caress them Except that "when they go lie we go high" is an explicit attack on the Conservatives for being liars, not just once or twice but habitually. It's nothing like the meek Democrat answer.
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I'll be honest, I only started posting in UKMT because it seemed like a rare leftish community in the hell that was the early coalition years. I think specifically it was reading Spangly A posts about his experience with the benefits system that made me realise this was a cool place to hang. So I can't say the thread radicalised me at all or changed my politics, but I am at least glad I found somewhere online that I could talk about politics and not feel like a mad outlier. I will say that the thread put somewhat of a dent in my support for Scottish independence at least.
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