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kustomkarkommando posted:He's still running... And so is his brother who'll win a seat as well... hell they could probably field a third family member and get another seat if they wanted (there's three more nephews and nieces who are all councillors in the same seat) I was trying to find Michael's new campaign song on Youtube and instead have come across videos of Danny ranting about how drink-driving laws are an attack on rural life & 'Nobody caused a fatality by having three glasses of Guinness drank' Jesus. Not sure the people of Kerry should be allowed the vote tbqh forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/MHealyRae/status/1218607036063195138?s=20 Imagine doing this to your wean Sorry, every time there's a Dáil election I remember about MHR & get obsessed again. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:Apparently there was an earthquake this morning? I didn't feel anything. I'd be amazed if a 2.8 magnitude quake would wake you up
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Rarity posted:So I get why large scale unions end up not being helpful because of entrenched staff putting their job security ahead of the workers they represent but why the gently caress don't all the people in GMB just leave for somewhere else? Is there a reason they can't? The general idea that if your work place has a recognised union you're better off joining that union because you have greater collective power. This topic is actually why I was asking in the thread earlier about a couple of sociological books, Political Parties by Robert Michels & Union Democracy by Lipset, Trow & Coleman. The former is about the supposed inevitability of organisation leading to oligarchy, "the iron law of oligarchy" and how it applies to things like unions. The latter is sort of a response and was about the International Typographical Union in America who were (it was written in the 50s) seen as defying the iron law. It seems like something ronya would know about. Ultimately a lot of it is down to the law. Unions are very much part of the accepted political landscape these days, much as some don't like them, but because of that the leadership is basically part of the establishment, especially the Labour Party establishment. The law is all about crushing the threat of unions and that's one of the reasons I will never forgive Blair, not reversing the appalling anti-union moves Thatcher made. This is why I find value in groups like the IWW who aren't attached to a political party & are very much a radical union willing to take radical action. Illegal strikes & such like, as if the idea of withdrawing your labour should ever be illegal. Solidarity strikes. General strikes. Unrelated but this is the sort of union action I want to see. https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1220363126031486977?s=20 forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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Now that's something to wank to. Karl Marx, not the lovely Leah
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Borrovan posted:Urgent advice needed, somebody took just short of 20 co-codamol & is begging me not to take her to hospital. Do I force her? She'd go along with it if I tell her she doesn't have a choice, but likely to never trust me again if she needs help another time That's potentially 10000mg of paracetamol (if I remember how much paracetamol is in co-codamol). Which is definitely enough to do serious damage to her liver and so you did the right thing. Going to A&E or where ever is scary as hell but paracetamol toxicity isn't something to experience. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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sebzilla posted:Baywatch isn't even a British show ffs. Britain was it its greatest about 950,000 years ago, before the first early humans lived here and ruined it.
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sinky posted:smh if you didn't spend the early 90s sitting in front of an Amiga. I spent the very early 90s in front of a Spectrum before moving to a Master System.
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https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1220848733773910016?s=20 Rare bit of actually interesting reporting in The Graun, albeit from the States
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Azza Bamboo posted:America killed Bin Laden but a lone British agent blew up the mountain hideout. Aye but we only did that because of concerns about it was lowering area house prices
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ronya posted:There doesn't seem to be a good reason for either to rock the boat, a point upon which Starmer has been particularly explicit Oh gently caress, thats a real tweet. There is far too much about the Blair years to criticise and claiming we shouldn't out of fear of division is just begging to fail to learn from it. Starmer really coming out all melt to the surprise of no oval office who has paid attention
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Paperhouse posted:I'm quite confused about Nandy, seems to be either left or right depending on who's talking about her at the time Jones thought Nandy was the most left person who could win in 2015, obviously that's not the case today.
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Cerv posted:constructive criticism is one thing, but “trashing” is another entirely that clearly says there was nothing good alongside the mistakes There are plenty of people in the Labour Party who think any criticism of the Blair years counts as trashing it though. Moderate improvement on a Tory government but broadly a continuation of Thatcherite policy, no reversal of anti-union laws, no reversal of privatisations of key national industries like the railways, not much in the way of large scale public housing investment, increasing income inequality on their watch (as so superbly summarised with Mandelson's "We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich" line), the poisonously close relationship with The City. Largely ignoring Labour heartlands to chase votes from Essex Man playing its part in the current mess we're in. They had a massive majority in 1997 and all they did with it was some small managerial fiddling. Sure, minimum wage was good. Devolution was good. Sure Start. But loving nora, a) they could have done so much & b) the list of terrible policies, the constant attacks on civil liberties, the quintessential neoliberal fiddling with tax credits rather than doing something substantive. The dire policies like ASBOs and being obsessed with looking "tough on crime" to Daily Mail readers rather than actually trying to pursue policies that reduce crime and decrease reoffending and all that. There's not a lot to be proud of without even mentioning the foreign policy disasters.
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Jose posted:maybe if people weren't living until they're 85 this wouldn't be a problem. makes u think Weird how the people harping on about how we need eugenics to reduce population numbers are so rarely willing to take the personal step of reducing the population. Dude's 71. She's 85. Be the change you want to see, don't expect poor people to die for you.
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https://twitter.com/CLPNominations/status/1221408219102359552?s=20 Weird, them people supporting Keir Starmer seem to have really terrible taste?
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WhatEvil posted:https://twitter.com/Rachael_Swindon/status/1221364774421790720?s=20 Yeah, Dawn is looking exceedingly good right now.
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OwlFancier posted:And what are you going to do when the government says no? Don't think an open forum is really the best spot to discuss strategies for overthrowing the government.
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There was definitely a time in my life I would have cared this much about the silly space fantasy films but I'm very glad it is behind me now. So I can focus my attention to more important things. Like wrestling.
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OwlFancier posted:John Cena hits a man with a folding chair and it makes the crowbar noise from half life .flv See? It's art.
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Miftan posted:Waiting for the inevitable bounty / jaffa cake crossover. Pickled Onion Monster Munch crossed with Terry's Chocolate Orange.
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Jan 28, 2020 11:42
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Someone convince Claire Saffitz to make gourmet Monster Munch.
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https://twitter.com/jewdas/status/1222233026140176385?s=20 Jewdas continue to be excellent.
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https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/1222834752484519936?s=20 Now that's a Spiked Online headline.
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Jose posted:Coronavirus people are in Newcastle lol Can't wait for "Jose liveposting through a quarantine". Then after that you can get on with making the disasters you've missed happen. "Jose liveposting through a volcanic eruption"
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Guavanaut posted:There was the guy that liked drawing trees at least. Tag u r self, I'm the Despair and Insanity leaves
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:On the same principal (don't just listen to the first few seconds of the Ice-T monologue at the start, he moves into the class war 'no lives matter') No Live Matters is such a jam.
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There were no fireworks in my village, so that's something positive going for it at least.
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