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OwlFancier posted:Slendertrain, slendertrain, highly unstable slendertrain. Love this. Happy 2020 you goony fucks.
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Guavanaut posted:Good morning UKMT This is violence. In other news, I'm back at work today and my sleep schedule was so bad over the festive period that it feels like I've got a hangover from waking up at 7am. We need to hurry up and overthrow capitalism because this is some bullshit.
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Tesseraction posted:My Aussie aunt is still sending my mum facebook messages about how it's the drat Greens responsible for all of this. Any country that Murdoch gets his tendrils into raises the dumbest motherfuckers. 
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Ms Adequate posted:That line African American parents stereotypically tell their kids: "You'll have to work twice as hard to get half as far." Anyone even remotely interested in this topic should read Akala's book "Natives" which is really good and interesting and depressing.
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bump_fn posted:lmfao "sensible soccer" is the most british soundign game ive ever heard of It's football on this side of the pond, yank.
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Jess Phillips said "this isn't just about me"? Who is this doppelgänger?
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Communist Thoughts posted:i wish we could just do the full female leadership contest, even just as a small gesture since it seems like none of the leadership candidates are as inspiring as corbyn and we're in a position that almost guarantees defeat at the next GE anyway The problem is we're not getting a new left direction (well we might, let's not prejudge LRB, but probably not since the media will push corbyn2.0). We're either getting reheated (oven ready) blairism or LRB at this point. Maaaayyybe Starmer is the bland void you think he is, but I reckon he'll tack right because nobody likes being shat on 24/7 by the media and their colleagues. If that's the choice, I go LRB every day. No surrender. Four day week, Three day bender!
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:Silly question, but if I've been a Labour member for 4 months will I be able to vote in the leadership election, or will I have to pay the £25? Freeze date is Jan 20th, you're good.
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stev posted:If they didn't do that in 2017, 2018 and 2019 I don't think a little thing like 'starting a war for funsies' will sway them. Yeah if anything it makes hardcore Republicans like him even more.
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Guavanaut posted:He was a bit poo poo to civilians and may have been indiscriminate while he was defeating ISIS and al-Nusra, but that puts him more in the league of Bernard Montgomery than Osama bin Laden. Let's not sugar coat this though, dude was in charge AFAIK of Iran's intelligence? That means finding terrorist orgs at the very least. He was not a good dude by any metric but here's the thing: THAT DOESN'T MATTER. You can't assassinate people, even if they're terrorists, out of nowhere. You know why? Because the category of who is and isn't a terrorist is very subject to change based on whims. Owen Jones' sister was detained under terrorism laws after returning from the G8 protests in Germany, iirc. We should always condemn assassination without trial because it's morally wrong and also because of pragmatic reasons. The left is opposed to the establishment and the establishment decides who is a terrorist. Once we get any actual opposition going, it'll be us.
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Jose posted:important to note that this wasn't out of nowhere its highly likely the US deliberately lured him there under pretences of de-escalation with saudi arabia before droning him Out of nowhere as in he didn't orchestrate 9/11 last week, but I take your point Coohoolin posted:I love the English left, it's so cool and smart and aware Can you elaborate? I'm not knowledgeable enough about scotpol to understand the reference.
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Tesseraction posted:bud are you saying Iran did 9/11 I am Mike Pence and you claim my £5? Also thank you to everyone who explained the no surrender business. I am still woefully uninformed about the UK's past Miftan fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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namesake posted:Unison leadership is garbage, this is well known. What big union leadership isn't these days?
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Jose posted:not sure who to vote for in the deputy election with rayner and butler both standing All else being equal I'd rather have a bame woman in a position of power over another white lady.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:how the gently caress does this forums drama stuff keep happening when every goon's like 37+ years old I only look like a middle aged white man, I'm actually a 4,000 year old dragon.
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Junior G-man posted:To me Jessflaps was always a sideshow without a real shot. Like, apart from a bunch of rear end in a top hat columnists, who is her actual base of support inside the party and unions? Yeah this, I don't think she's pulling off a corbyn, but when she gets knocked out her supporters are definitely going to pivot to Starmer. I'm more concerned by the Lavery types converting to Clive Lewis. To be fair he has some good ideas, but attitude towards women and #metoo are a disqualifying factor for me. Probably help with the general electorate though..
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1215377862393585664 I'll be loving pissed if Butler doesn't make it onto the ballot.
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OwlFancier posted:Count Nybroc is not a vampire, or rather he has a rare form of vampirism where he eats the rich and the ejects black puddings at high velocity at people who are hungry. Gross.
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feedmegin posted:MEATY GOONS "getting a lot of questions that were already answered by my 'I definitely didn't kill someone, harvest their organs, and eay them' t-shirt" Miftan fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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feedmegin posted:Just make sure you dont harvest the liver, you'll want that with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Man what the gently caress did I do with the grammar in the post
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Jan 10, 2020 21:35
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OwlFancier posted:Sent it second class, presumably. Look at Mr. Moneybags here who can send his grammar first class. La dee da! You'll be first up against the wall, pal.
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sebzilla posted:You should watch Firefly it's pretty good It's pretty average.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Cool, are tories and Lib Dem’s still fair game too? We already said Nazis are fair game~!! (i'm kidding lib dems aren't nazis they're just enablers)
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Those suggestions are absolute rear end. Especially 2, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9 & 10 are just.. absolute nothing commitments that don't mean anything.
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Purple Prince posted:As a philosophy student I once tried reading Roger Scruton. Aesthetics is by far the weirdest branch of philosophy even without all the weird racists, imo. And also they call themselves aestheticians so everybody thinks they do nails and eyebrows for a living.
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Purple Prince posted:I think it's to do with attempting to rationalise something which is generally considered to be emotionally-driven and subjective, and the kind of knots you need to tie yourself in to get to a logical argument. That's true of all philosophy fwiw. It's especially bad in ethics where someone will write 4 loving tomes and then some dickhead says 'ethics is a category error' and the whole room devolves into a tavern brawl (as all great philosophy is done in pubs anyway)
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Guavanaut posted:Fast forward to Labour deferring to a beth din of the most Orthodox Jews imaginable, and they're all Third Temple diasporic Jews who regard secular Israel as a traitor state acting against the coming of the Messiah. I'm not sure the Israeli rabbinate will take the case.
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StarkingBarfish posted:See #8. They got ahead of that. I'd have been cool with 'find the most socialest kibbutz and ask them to take it on' The vast majority of Kibbutzim have been privatised and make a poo poo ton of money now! 
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Guavanaut posted:Okay, new proposal, all cases to be independently judged by Irving Leonard Finkel, by interpretation of the Code of Ur-Nammu (except the slavery bits). Three kur of barley per antisemitism, welcome to clay court, binches! Is that the new Greggs vegan steak bake he's holding?
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Pratchett has all that just without the massive Hollywood money thing behind me and also without the bad writing. So I'd guess it was probably a successful book series that got massive by throwing a ton of money at it.
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stev posted:(How did his parents become wizard millionaires anyway? Who did they exploit?) They invented toaster strudels
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Guavanaut posted:I've never read any of the Harrys Potter. I'm not even sure why, I think it took off while I was I was reading The Last Continent and in the wrong age range, maybe? Jordan Peterson has never written anything that could count as philosophy in his life, unless you want to categorize all self help books as philosophy. He's a Christian Conservative but he actively tries to hide it. In non-awful person news, all around good egg David Graeber has written a piece about Centrism and the election I think the thread will enjoy and that on first read through seems mostly very plausible to me
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namesake posted:It's sort of okay but being an administrator or highly educated and liking a system of explicit rules is not the basis of a class. You know who has a lot of rules to learn and obey at all times? Welders. Because working with deadly heat and explosive gases under pressure in industrial environments ends up needing a lot of things to be checked and monitored. You know who else? The deeply religious. You know who else? Literally everyone living in a society learns the millions of assumptions and expectations of that society and obey them and frequently get rather upset when they see them broken. I think the point Graeber is trying to make is that people are really sick of, and this is the biggie, rules that they can't change and disagree with. This is everyone with a stupid boss, nurses raging at the admin who make them fill out a million forms instead of caring for patients (every job has this to some extent) and gammons raging and unelected brussels bureaucrats.
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namesake posted:Yeah that's what I'm saying too but phrasing it as a class divide means the particular rulemaking groups in society become the enemy rather than the actual class system which takes away the workers freedom and then creates a legion of monitors to enforce it. Sorry I'm not being clear. I agree with you and I think Graeber might as well. He's just saying the tories might have found a way to leverage that frustration into winning with people whose interests they don't represent.
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ronya posted:I did like the essay, but it is odd to write this He's almost definitely not happy about it, but if we're being charitable, it's a statement of fact - what happened - not a judgement call. The judgement call is reserved for how this interacted with the 2019 election. That analysis, whatever your opinion of it, is I think solid. It may or may not be true, as is true for all analysis, but I think it's an interesting idea to think about. Ultimately, it's just another way of saying that people think of politicians and the establishment is being pencil pushers and bureaucrats and Johnson managed to conflate that with the EU while positioning himself as the opposite. That's why you get people saying things like "he says it like it is" and all that crap.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Graeber is interesting because he’s never less than 40% or more than 60% right. He has a talent for getting one big, controversial idea that’s broadly correct but he tends to then take that off into corollaries that aren’t (and isn’t very interested in details). I'll have to reread the article, but I don't think that's the point he was making. I thought it was (to your second true point) "and the tories successfully placed the EU and Labour in the rules camp and them in the opposite. This was the basis for the recent wave of right wing populism since 2016."
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gh0stpinballa posted:think i managed to cancel my labour membership but that was really long winded, ended up having to email like 3 different people Why would you cancel it before the leadership election? At the very least you couldve held on to it for a bit more to make sure the proper rear end in a top hat don't get in.
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