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I started streaming UKMT approved game Disco Elysium on the podcast twitch last week, if anyone wants to join us I'm about to start streaming more over at https://twitch.tv/praxiscast
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jabby posted:I think Momentum/Corbyn just picked a pretty poor candidate in RLB. Nothing against the woman, but she just doesn't bring the passion and it seemed a bit obvious she was chosen primarily for loyalty. Rayner or even McDonnell would have done better I think. John is too old, he was apparently talking about retiring after the 2015 parliament, but stuck around when Corbyn got the leadership, otherwise he'd likely have retired by now. Rayner said some pretty problematic stuff in the campaign, and I've not seen much indication of her economic positioning. Most bets were on Pidcock to be the heir apparent, but her losing her seat was a big surprise.
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Apr 4, 2020 13:37
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ThomasPaine posted:Depressing number of old high school acquaintances on Facebook pulling the 'if you hope bojo dies because of politics you're the problem' angle. These are people he does not give a solitary poo poo about, many of whom have or know people who have been destroyed on universal credit. Depressing seeing how deep liberal ideology runs amongst the general public, 'politics' being some team sport with no real bearing on real life. I know a fair number of pretty hard socialists who fall under the idea of "I want him to get better so I can get back to wishing him death." Boris isn't a nazi, he's not actively malicious to poors/minorities, he just doesn't care, not everyone can whip up an emotional actual death wish against someone who is apathetic, instead of full of hate.
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Apr 9, 2020 10:33
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Angepain posted:look i'd like to make the slightest effort to stop using language that mocks disabled people but it's actually an important part of my legitimate culture Some of my best friends are ableist words
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ronya posted:- Section 2+3 winds up arguing strenuously for the factionalism+caseload volume pitch - but if one writes that the old model was too dependent on an informal, cohesive relationship between the Leader's Office and Southside and was not-fit-for-purpose by 2015 for these reasons, then the obvious follow-up question is why the party dallied for three years to replace it. We as political observers ITT know why - the A/S controversy quietly exited stage left across 2017 until it roared back to life with muralgate in 2018, and during the period both the LOTO and GLU lost interest. But that's not a good answer, not for people for whom corporate governance is a full-time job. A third party audit would surely pick up this thread even if neither of Labour's factions are interested The General Secretary until May of 2018 was aligned perfectly with the GLU, no change could be made by the party without it being the GS's move. Nothing was changed until Formby was in place as nothing could be changed. The report clearly outs McNicol firmly on the side of the right wing factionalists who spent their time looking for trots, instead of working on their caseload of anti-Semitism cases.
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Apr 13, 2020 10:39
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JordanKai posted:The report on antisemitism within the Labour Party was finalised, but party lawyers decided not to send to the EHRC. The report was leaked to various journalists soon afterwards and has now also been leaked to the public. It reveals that numerous of the more conservative higher ups of the party, including Emilie Oldknow and Iain McNicol, actively conspired to sink the party's chances in the general election, purge leftist members (who they consistently call "trots") from the party, bully minority MPs, and gridlock antisemitism investigations from being completed. Meanwhile, it reveals that Jeremy Corbyn pushed to get antisemitism investigations done and that he was doing his best to combat AS within the party. Your starting bit isn't quite right. A document designed to cover the surrounding nature of the Labour parties internal actions on anti-Semitism was made, alongside the parties other submissions to the EHRC, and is now not being submitted (the claim is it was an internal document to help establish the situation between 2014 and 2019 and was intended as at most an addendum to the existing submissions) The rest seems roughly right from a quick scan.
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https://twitter.com/mehall/status/1250014047992451072?s=20 How many Trotskyites does Tom Blenkinsopp think are in the UK?
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Apr 14, 2020 11:53
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Nestle are awful, but also don't begrudge the little pleasures people can find to make life bearable. Not sure how I'd survive the grimdark future of Tory Britain if I wasn't allowed chocolate oranges.
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I wasn't claiming Terry's was part of Nestle, I was saying that if someones favourite one thing to get through capitalist hellholle 21st century paedoph-isles is one of those things maybe back off. Feel free to highlight all the awful things Nestle or whoever else do, but if a comrade decides that they're not going to go live in a hippy commune off the grid then take their "This is how I get through my day" and move on.
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Z the IVth posted:I've been trying out some USB webcams for work and I'm not terribly impressed. Your phone webcam is very likely to have better output than any cheap USB cam and if you want to spend 100s on a good one you might as well get a cheap 2nd hand flagship phone from 3 years ago. I think a used Galaxy S7 is like £50ish on eBay? The thing is the decent webcams are largely gonna be sold out, or at least overpriced just now, but a smartphone camera has two issues. One, it requires you to hold the device, as typically it means you're using that device for all the communications as it's a pain to try and send the output through a computer, so now you have a smaller screen to work with, and an object you need to hold. Two, phone lenses are typically narrower frame than a half decent webcam, aimed largely for a single user, which seems fine at first, but gets awkward if you want to have multiple people involved, or show something off. This is especially true thanks to point one as you'll often be using the front facing camera instead. The gold standard for budget webcams is the Logitech c920 or c920s, prior to the event commonly available for about £50, sometimes on sale as cheap as £25. Due to everyone suddenly needing webcams, the stock dried up so the prices have ballooned up to about £70
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Fresh new podcast on the state of Labour factionalism from your thread comrades over at Podcasting is Praxis, plus also Jack off of Reel Politik - https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1255989056674107394?s=20
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