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Hi everyone, North American lurker here. I started watching UK politics as a kind of passive hobby after the 2017 election because  , but also because I believe that effective left-leaning politics should look outside of one's borders to how other polities operate. I decided to keep a tab on the UKMT in an effort to understand British parliamentary protocol and procedure through a socialist lens.Well, by chance this upcoming election falls not only a couple days after my birthday, but also during finals week at my university. Taken together with the 6ish hour time delay, I'm looking forward to drinking and watching the results roll in. Like most of you I think Labour has a great chance at bringing in an actual left-leaning UK government. If so, I hope my idiot country follows suit 11 months from now. Good luck, and remember that hope is not a lie!
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The first run of Futurama was perfect. I watch the X-mas episodes every year in December as is tradition, like decorating palm trees and jolly-seeking missiles.
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Dec 4, 2019 19:59
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Exioce posted:Or perhaps it's a Messiah Complex. You're going to save the world from itself, aren't you, Hero. gently caress off bootlicker. Not everyone worships money like you and your shitlord brethren.
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Dec 5, 2019 13:33
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:When Corbyn nationalises BT everyone will have a 42069 number Nice
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Dec 6, 2019 13:47
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Continuity RCP posted:I can't believe how easy it is for some of you to get discouraged No kidding! How did y'all learn to tie your shoes getting as frustrated as you seem to get by something as minor as a poll put out by a clearly biased company?
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Dec 6, 2019 23:24
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Trickjaw posted:Ugh I hate explaining this. Front wheel skid =yid= yiddish. It might be a liverpool thing ...wow, that's a hell of a code.
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Dec 7, 2019 00:06
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Trevor Hale posted:Perfectly happy that Ridley is having to confront her privilege, but the framing of the tweet is weird. “This is what happens when you challenge someone in an interview and not defer to their press release” and it’s not a politician, it’s an actress in a kid’s movie who was bullied off of social media. Celebrities aren't real people.
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Dec 7, 2019 16:44
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Good luck Britgoons, I hope Labour gets a majority and y'all herald in an Anglosphere revival of the Left!
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Dec 12, 2019 17:38
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Here's what I can't figure out: the data I saw say that 16 million registered voters stayed home? Is this accurate, and if so what the hell happened to trigger that?
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Dec 15, 2019 18:22
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punk rebel ecks posted:So what should have Labour done differently? I think that Brexit is a political Singularity. It seems to foul up the calculus for any political entity that has actual principles other than "rape, pillage, and no brown folk."
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Dec 15, 2019 21:55
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Nettle Soup posted:Same poo poo I said earlier in the thread. Stop with the "us and them" mentality and the "loving lib dems" "all tories are bastards!" etc rhetoric, it doesn't really help, even if you think it. Tolerance of the intolerant is cowardace. gently caress conservatives in hell forever.
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Dec 15, 2019 22:34
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Guys guys guys, we need to stop insulting Nazis because otherwise they're gonna get *MORE* fascist!
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Dec 15, 2019 22:41
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OwlFancier posted:Also if the ANL they're referring to was the Anti Nazi League I have to wonder what they were doing if they now thing antifascists are bad..? Id bet that particular person is full of poo poo and did nothing, kinda like all how every 70 year old in the US was in total solidarity with the hippy movement and never was pro-war despite it having massive support of that total age bracket.
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Dec 15, 2019 23:00
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FiftySeven posted:Ultimately, ordinary people don't like to be told that their ingrained bigotry is not harmless, and when they have marginalized people telling them that what they are saying and doing is hurtful, they take offense, and get standoffish. It keeps coming up and starts to be several things, and suddenly they are perceiving it as an attack on themselves. Its stupid and short sighted but this cycle has genuinely been a huge source of brain worms for a shockingly large amount of people. I don't think it helps anything at all when you have lots of these communities blaming everything on the straight white male demographic, or just white people in general. At that point, people get extremely standoffish and accusations of reverse racism start to fly. Suddenly, the people fighting the Fascists are the bad guy, and these idiots start identifying with the fascists rather than the marginalized. gently caress 'em, if calling people out on their bigotry makes them MORE bigoted then they're fash collaborators and need a stompin'.
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Dec 15, 2019 23:01
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WhatEvil posted:Just told my friendship group back in the UK to gently caress off, basically. Bunch of comfortable liberals who're treating all this as a game. One of them called me "trumpian" when I said that media bias against Corbyn/Labour was a major issue - has he loving seen a) The media, and b) Boris Johnson? Never hesitate to 
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Dec 15, 2019 23:05
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Pochoclo posted:gently caress the lot of them
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Dec 16, 2019 01:50
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