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 Happy Monday everyone, brought to you by the most normal country. Also that GWU thing looks like a shitshow, hate these left infights that crop up where there's no clear series of events to refer to and a strong implication that you're not supposed to ask.
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OwlFancier posted:Who the gently caress is bez he looks like pound shop bruce forsyth. Bez has done it all. Madchester in the 80s, daytime TV in the 90s, Celeb Big Brother in the 00s, beaten in a parliamentary election by Rebecca Long-Bailey in the 10s. He's the UK's answer to the Renaissance man.
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Jun 1, 2020 13:16
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"extrovert" and "introvert" were invented by Myers-Briggs to sell more personality tests, don't believe the hype.
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Jun 2, 2020 11:35
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ThomasPaine posted:This is the book she's pushing, idk, it's a thousand miles from my field and I've never come across the author(s) before, so I can't speak to any possible ideological angles they might have That book is quoting William Styron's "The Confessions of Nat Turner", which is pretty racist and puts the words "an unspeakable bootlicking Sambo" in Turner's mouth about one of his fellow revolutionaries, which is very lovely but also straightforwardly the modern use of the term (especially given that it was written in 1967). This doesn't really help with your issue, but there really doesn't seem to be anything there.
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Jun 4, 2020 10:02
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Ms Sirtis is properly a devout Hegelian, it seems
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Jun 4, 2020 23:38
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Jose posted:this is how you do a monument Google street view has it as of 2017:  It's behind the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, easily the most upsetting museum I've ever visited. One floor had an exhibit on the shared display of Yugoslav unity in the 1984 Olympic games, the next had eyewitness accounts of people being murdered by their next door neighbours in a race war less than a decade later.
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Jun 9, 2020 09:39
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Bizarre tweet on the twin basis that the article is in part about Ahmed Best's mental health issues resulting from mockery about Jar-Jar Binks, so uh, nice one Tim, combined with the fact that unlike Tim Farron's pathetic grovelling, Ahmed Best being in Star Wars again is literally happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDMTiamRRY josh04 fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Jun 9, 2020 10:38
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Illuminti posted:In what weird world do you live in where you are under the impression that Rowlings opinions are somehow a minority stance? The one outside of Mumsnet? e: lol, a ten-year history of probes in the ukmt josh04 fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Jun 9, 2020 12:29
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Necrothatcher posted:So are they going to get that Rhodes statue down then? Seems a bit trickier than Colston. Too high, a result of his desire to have himself placed literally above King and Church. Relatedly, the Beeb have somehow failed to mention his commitment to anti-racism criticism: 
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Jun 9, 2020 19:30
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Here's a thing https://twitter.com/danohagan/status/1270343135512670208
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Jun 9, 2020 20:15
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Spangly A posted:if you I really liked this one.
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Jun 10, 2020 09:11
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Tarnop posted:It's following the Osborne austerity template, so I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone DNEG, one of the big vfx firms in Soho, just announced 200 redundancies.
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Jun 10, 2020 11:25
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Jesus, VFX is such a shitshow.
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Jun 10, 2020 12:04
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Jose posted:yeah some good background on him here Well, at least it's not all bad: quote:He was one of three doctors that enabled Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to be released, after obtaining a diagnosis of imminent terminal cancer. The services were paid for by the Libyan Government. Sikora gave him three months to live ... whereupon al-Megrahi recovered in miraculous fashion, living on for several years.
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Jun 11, 2020 11:33
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I'm sticking to the theory that the polls are nonsense that may as well start from the assumption that the Torys get 40% and the election turning out to roughly match them was coincidence.
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Jun 11, 2020 21:22
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Borrovan posted:Because the Sun are doing exactly what she did, making her out to be a victim to shield her from criticism for her flagrant transphobia It's not really fair to suggest that the Sun are doing Rowling a favour by putting her abusive ex talking about slapping her on the cover, regardless of anything else.
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Jun 12, 2020 11:45
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Communist Thoughts posted:you know what they say, the best way to fight racism is with a technocratic spook with a hairdo But Rory Stewart is nowhere to be found?!
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Jun 12, 2020 15:15
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I replaced my old powerline adapters a few months ago because one of them kept dropped out under load.
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Jun 13, 2020 11:53
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Party Boat posted:The weird thing is the computers upstairs are connected over powerline as well and they never had any issues. You'd think that the device that's in the same room as the router would encounter less interference. For mine it was just overheating, nothing technical.
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Jun 13, 2020 12:08
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Apart from the Colston statue, has anyone anywhere either on the left or BLM tried to take out a statue or called for the removal of a statue? Rhodes Must Fall, which predates this current controversy and caused much seething at the time.
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Jun 14, 2020 18:01
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Jose posted:Lmao at the Lego movie director With one of the writers for Picard in the replies, excellent. https://twitter.com/zayas_nick/status/1271593700993282048 (every single reply is a variation on "my grandfather's slaves!")
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Jun 15, 2020 09:32
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Actually I think you'll find "we did it"? https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1272866991683051520
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Jun 16, 2020 14:00
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Jose posted:one of the reasons brendan o'neill and tom harwood are constantly on the bbc is that they have absolutely nothing else going on in their lives so are always available and producers know this Obligatory reminder that Tom Harwood could only persuade 35 out of 1,200 of his peers at the NUS conference to vote for him.
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Jun 16, 2020 18:57
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You'd better start believing in Admiralty Courts, Miss Turner... you're in one.
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Jun 17, 2020 10:00
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Nice.
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Jun 17, 2020 20:14
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thespaceinvader posted:Nah they'll just start a war with *rolls dice* Iran and institute conscription for the unemployed. Hey, that dice says "Iran" on every side!
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Jun 18, 2020 15:17
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Angepain posted:while we're in the end times I want to come clean to everyone as the person who spent actual money making and buying Someone posted this at me the other day and it was straight-up topical, so well done.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:20
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Nah, cancelled my direct debit. They'll go down like the Dems in the US, appealing to the last mythical centrist racist on the burnt cinder of a planet and I'll just be pissing pennies into a bottomless well until then otherwise. Someone get can get my cash.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:42
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Some trots with one newspaper and half a trellis table between them, idk. If all the parliamentary path to power is is "wait for lightning to strike or external conditions to force change within the party" then it's unclear what being inside that party is benefitting.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:48
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Jose posted:in case people aren't aware the people who run bread and roses are dodgy as gently caress. like 2 sex pests and someone who outs trans people dodgy if this is the case that really just makes it par for the course in terms of leftist SA spinouts, SA spinouts in general, SA itself.
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Jun 25, 2020 21:15
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Jose posted:They've never posted in gbs and I think stopped posting on sa altogether when the news became public if he doesn't can you steal a db dump and we'll rebuild it elsewhere?
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Jun 25, 2020 21:30
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/were-labours-antisemitism-failures-really-corbyns-fault/ lol quote:Contacted for this article, the Labour Party said: “These were messages exchanged between co-workers in the expectation that they would remain private and confidential and the tone of the language used reflects that.” The party added that it was “po-faced” to characterise the messages as “infantile”. well, that's okay then
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Jun 26, 2020 23:33
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Flipswitch posted:https://twitter.com/wurrance/status/1276799521826062336 Parody account, plus it's gone. e: blue tick also gives you priority replies to other blue ticks and some extra Twitter functionality, iirc.
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Jun 27, 2020 10:30
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The specifics are almost irrelevant to the point Peake was making; even if the Israeli police didn't literally tap a blackboard with a diagram of a neck on it to a rapt audience of US cops, they absolutely train together and form a direct conduit for tactics learned suppressing Palestinians to be used against US civilians. The link is the point, not the idea that the Israelis have a secret neck-stepping tactic they have to teach individually.
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Jun 27, 2020 16:49
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Angepain posted:his swift self-correction that Black Lives Matter is not a "movement" but a "moment" is... interesting. what does he feel the difference is. it sounds like he figures it will just go away after a while and then we can get back to not thinking too hard about what police do He's proving his anti-racist cred by misquoting Hamilton. 
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Jun 29, 2020 13:17
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Stamer and his crazy explanations, The Independent's gonna want a resignation, RLB's tweeted their exaggerations, There'll be space on front bench, tonight!
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Yeah, nothing prevents air from mixing like a small partition.
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Jul 3, 2020 12:06
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if it's just showing its age but I can't help but feel this is describing a thing that I don't think exists and also drawing absolutely terrible conclusions and suggestions from it. Yes - going back and re-reading it there's less that's relevant every time. The appeal is identifying [people who are criticising you] as vampires who make their profit in pious denunciations, but denouncing others as social vampires unconcerned with class struggle is itself a pious denunciation. Beyond that, I don't think anyone in the UK or the US could seriously claim that we refuse to talk about class in deference to identities, or are scorning the parliamentary route to power, after our corresponding, largely united old-white-guy electoral campaigns. Owen Jones made it through the gauntlet alive, and we have a handful of more figures like him. The tactics Fisher describes still see use - but as he notes, they were a feature of some parts of the left pre-social-media too.
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ThomasPaine posted:You guys clearly have never gone down the bottom left twitter rabbit hole and I'm loving jealous of you Pretty much every online left group I was in around 2013 collapsed in recriminations, sometimes it was silly, sometimes it was unpleasant. I just don't think that in the end it was as apocalyptic a pattern as Fisher describes: like you say, you have to hunt this stuff out now.
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OwlFancier posted:I think he's also missing the important point that anger and spite are important expressions of class solidarity. Like there is this idea that people are just doing ti performatively and out of a desire to make the world less enjoyable, but a lot of the motivation behind that approach comes from a very genuine place. It's literally all you have, a lot of the time. You're utterly politically disenfranchised but you can be a part of flexing collective power in specific cases, notably making people cry on twitter. I think that's uncharitable to Fisher, who was plenty caustic when the moment called for it. He'd by no means have been a friend to the cancel-culture letter shitbags. His worry was people achieving elevated status within left circles by sole virtue of being able to direct this anger in a kind of witch-finder general role, and there certainly were and are people who take that role - that's the 'bourgeois affectation'. I think in the longer view, far more people on the left were interested in being part of Corbynism and the role of professional caller-outer has been picked up by FBPEs and Weetmans. Say whatever else you like about the Novara lot, but they haven't made their rep tending to call-out threads and that's the specific form that Fisher's trying to pick out. ThomasPaine posted:Fisher's just describing the blowback from trying to articulate an actual class analysis within a heavily neoliberalised and often extremely dismissive individualist 'left' that insists on decentring the unique importance of socioeconomic relationships, and I think it's this frustration that he's mad about rather than being outraged that people argue with each other or focus on 'irrelevant' secondary issues, which often seems to be a bit of a strawman wheeled out by his critics. Agreed, but the conversation on this is very different now to where it was in 2013. I don't think there was a significant left movement to get behind Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg on an identarian basis, and liberals who suggested it were laughed at.
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