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A National Unity Government could have been a useful thing if it had been implemented under the conditions of actually having a coherent Covid plan, because it would have made it possible to say "Look this isn't about party politics it's about the best scientific advice" and so on, and true or not, having both major parties (Plus ideally the SNP) saying it and being both responsible for what comes out of the Cabinet would have left a significantly smaller space for dissenters and conspiracy theorists to operate in whilst hopefully giving a sense of greater weight to lockdowns and mandates and so forth. At this point I only see it after someone pushes Boris, because they could say "blank slate, new government, new policies to finally get things under control". You risk sharing the glory whilst you also get to share some blame, but being able to say "We nobly sought to share power with our political rivals in those trying times for the greater good of the country" is a good look that the opposition can't really share because well of course the oppo want some power. As I say I do think it could have use if it was part of a sincere plan to actually fix things but that is not the situation we are in, and Starmer is vastly too unimaginative to have any useful ideas to share and vastly too short of the daring needed to push for radical plans anyway. So it definitely appeals to the centrist mind, because it implies a vaunted spirit of coolheaded National Good is upon the political class without any regard at all for actually prevailing conditions 
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I stan the little old lady going "Idgaf I just trundle along at 4mph". Want that to be me when I'm older. e; Also lmao at the bloke who thinks he spent ten years in The War. Even if he was there from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender being signed on the Missouri that's not ten years. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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I'm hoping down the road Claudia Webbe gets into the leadership. I followed her on Twitter when she got in to see how bad she'd be but she's bang on with drat near everything I see her post. Socialist, constantly posting good things about important issues, and she's the only MP I can think of who said this about Captain Sir Tom "United Kingdom" "Two World Wars And One World Cup" Moore: https://twitter.com/ClaudiaWebbe/status/1357036379167940609 i.e. actually saying that he shouldn't have needed to raise one red cent for the NHS. Given that she's the one who replaced Keith
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Communist Thoughts posted:Forget who is the most electable, who would be the funniest Labour leader? Corbs to see the melts.
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I expect potential coups to come after May as well, the left doesn't currently have the power and the melts have invested so much into Keeth that I expect there's some mental block to accepting they were wrong. Better to see if they're wrong and sensible centrist Kieth can actually do it. Plus nobody really wants to risk having the fight now and having to get their ducks in a row and dealing with factionalism going into May because it'd likely undermine any prospect of gains and lead to them, in turn, rapidly getting the boot. E; Plus whilst the left has been sour on Starmer from the start his broader decline is relatively more recent, and I think still needs to pick up steam before contenders can push for a leadership challenge. Momentum (lol) is building, but I think it's still at the point where the relevant party mechanisms would dismiss it as a bunch of goons on Twitter. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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keep punching joe posted:Jackie Weaver did in fact have no authority, and the vice chair who was present should have taken control. Read the standing orders. READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM! JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You can't actually ever erase a hard drive because one day a super intelligent AI will exist capable of simulating the universe from first principles and eventually your hard drive with all its anime fan porn will come to exist in that simulation and the AI will blackmail you with it lol if the AI thinks I've got anything I'm ashamed of. "Go ahead and show everyone, I want to make them see but it'd be rude/a crime if I did it."
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Just what people want, an apolitical QC with so little courage he doesn't even have bad ideas.
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tbh I just continue to be blown away by how utterly useless Starmer actually is. When it looked like he'd take the leadership I was annoyed because I'd definitely rather have had Rebecca "Three day week and a four day bender" Bong-Daily and he won, so, fine, the membership has spoken, let's see what he can do. I feared that he'd have bad centrist takes and melt policies, I hoped he'd keep at least a few Corbyn policies that had been particularly popular, what I expected was somewhere in between. I genuinely didn't expect he would be so thoroughly useless in every single regard. I thought we'd be getting mad at him for not going far enough when he called for the government to do something, or suggesting some shite like "We must protect the NHS and ensure it is fully funded, but Labour also recognizes that there is an important role for private entities to play in delivering healthcare" or whatever. I honestly did not think he was going to just be "Exactly what the government suggests 20 minutes after Downing Street has announced it" on every. single. issue.
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WhatEvil posted:I'm not saying Starmer is an op but if you were in MI5 trying to uphold power for the establishment, and Starmer was your man, what would you have him do differently? I mean, I'd rather get my literal man in the office than just a moron like Boris who is absolutely on side and completely pliable, but such a bumbling oaf that he could easily gently caress something up and get our agents in Iran executed or something. e; 31 is like card game 21 but... your target is 31. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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You, plebeian classes: I cannot get the fudge I want  Me, Matrician: I ordered a bunch of fudge just now no problem, because I do not like gross things 
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I guess my question is why care so much about trying to extract the pineapple part from the blackface part, even if there's some truth to what you're saying? I don't think there, because black people's hair is intensely racialized (cf. "Stroppy teenager of colour" incident), but even if so, okay, it would reduce the intent behind one part of it and leave the rest intact. It actually ties in nicely with the tumblr hugging question as well, in that yes I would also say "abuse" would be a hyperbolic word to use there, but teaching children they have autonomy and the right to set boundaries is a very good policy, doing the opposite is bad, and treating children as not actually being people is likewise bad. So why get hung up because some teenagers on tunglr dot edu get overzealous in making a correct argument? Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Feb 7, 2021 |
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CoolCab posted:you also have not been to a pub, or to get your hair cut, left your hometown or had anyone in your home or been in anyone else's home for the past year. Correct, correct, correct, correct, correct, and correct. I have obeyed the lockdown rules scrupulously, I have not left the house except for shopping (always masked etc) and one visit to the GP's that they told me to come in for. Of course it loving sucks, guess what, it's a global pandemic that's killed nearly two and a half million people, and of course the tories have spectacularly hosed up, that doesn't exempt anyone from following the medical advice (I'd love to know why you keep saying it doesn't work, because it sounds identical to banging on about how useless masks are). The pandemic isn't over because people are bored. Not that shopping the bloke to the plod is the right solution either, but yeah I would expect someone in the medical field to have a fairly loving acute appreciation for measures to slow the spread of the, again, deadly global pandemic, and the fact it's been a monstrosity of a year in that field only increases that expectation.
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Secure leadership is when you have to get on the front page of a national paper to insist you're the right person for the job, and the more strenuously you have to insist the stronger your position is. Tories must be pissing themselves laffin tbh, couldn't have pulled off "Uh yeah we're uh... dead scared of Keith he's the one to watch out for in Labour" any better
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From earlier, we had a copper come in to chat with us at school and it was actually much more effective than most of your stories (And I presume most of the talks people get). He wasn't really friendly but he treated us as if not quite equals at least people with serious questions and opinions, from what I remember he answered things in a straightforward manner without really bullshitting, he didn't play things up like drugs being the devil (It was more 'drugs can really easily go wrong or get you addicted, and dealers are extremely unpleasant people, so best not take the risk' than 'one toke of the devil's lettuce and you'll kill your gran') and when someone tried to steer the conversation in a salacious "What's the worst thing you've ever seen?" direction he answered - and this was to a bunch of 11 and 12 year olds - unflinchingly about some very unpleasant stuff and stopped the line of questioning easily. Seems like a bloke like that would be much more effective at both humanizing the polis and getting kids to listen to what they say than the usual hyperbolic shite.
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Seems to me the lesson from Leah Betts is to not drink water
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Love too be told that I should be grateful to live on terf island, a place so rapidly and deeply attacking trans rights that more than half the trans people I know here have plans on how to get out because the rhetoric is already so fevered, and escalating so rapidly. And most of those who don't have such plans lack them because of a lack of means rather than faith in the country.
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Borrovan posted:Ms A, it sucks that this is terf island but I'm glad that you are from here because it means you hang out with us, your posting pals, who respect your gender identity unconditionally & enjoy your company That's very kind of you to say, but please don't feel the need to pretend I am a good poster just because I am trans, I can be - and am - an extremely bad poster whilst still being a trans girl! 
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Borrovan posted:Nah you're sound
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I'll never abandon the cause of the Young Pretender!
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happyhippy posted:They should do a remake of King Ralph, but its a Sinn Feiner from the Falls Road whose next in line. lmao fund it, that would be amazing
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Any who attack the noblest institution of Ulsterbus/Translink deserves to lose in NI, sorry that's just facts
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crispix posted:would yous consider a goon project for me as an alternative to becoming king of skomer: becoming leader of t'the labour party i'll start the
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Every now and then I am seized with nostalgia for the Northern Ireland of my youth. It was a refuge from the wall-to-wall awfulness of my home life and school to go and stay with my Granny Sadie for various holidays, and I'm sure she'd be shocked to realize how many of my memories from back then do *not* revolve around me playing video games all day (Though there's plenty of that too). Sometimes I go and read stuff about NI or trundle around on Google Maps and the differences affect me far more deeply than I would ever have predicted they could or would. The tiny amusement park in Millisle, now gone. The video rental places in Newtownards, all gone, even Xtravision. They tore down Granny's old bungalow and the row it was on, and rebuilt them. I don't usually struggle with feelings of nostalgia but nights like tonight get weird. And if it's a motivating factor for people - the idealized, imperfectly remembered youth - I can see why they start following people and movements who promise to bring it back. It can't be brought back, of course, even if I had Bezos money and somehow had perfect records of the place circa 1998 and I spent everything on recreating Harry's little rental store or demolishing the houses that now sit where Millisle's rides once were, the feeling of the time can't be revived, it wouldn't bring back the actual people who made it what it was, least of all Granny Sadie, nor could it actually bring back my own self of the time. Motion, of necessity, involves a change of perspective. It probably doesn't help that it's not a purely idealized memory for me, it's very specifically just Northern Ireland I remember this way, because it was where I was loved and properly cared for as a child, compared to the constant abuse, neglect, unhappiness, alcoholism, and bullying I was surrounded by and victim of in England. So it's surely made more acute by all that, having one specific set of places and memories and times that were the best a kid could ask for, contrasted with the rest. Norn Iron in the intense last days of the Troubles was still like thirteen orders of magnitude more preferable, to me, than being elsewhere. And it's probably compounded because as an adult, like so many of my generation, we're in a world that has made our individual hopes and dreams difficult to attain, and our collective hopes and dreams have been stolen from us by an older generation that has hosed everything and won't even let us try to start fixing things. So with no apparent future to look forward to, the past, the time of simple joys and childhood certainties, becomes the only actual certitude in life. I don't even know what I'm saying with this post really, just... guard yourself against letting nostalgia inform your politics because I can absolutely see how if this feeling is common rather than something that occasionally takes hold every few months, it's something you start to want changed, and you start listening to the people who promise to make you feel the way you did when you were young again.
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nurmie posted:This is a Good Post, thank you! Oh that's interesting, I had assumed it was people who may not have liked everything about the old USSR but at least liked the absence of hypercapitalist hell. I will say though that the noble Alt Histroy genre of ISOT (Island in the Sea Of Time) is cool and good even though it's usually wanky as hell
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Re: Scandi Noir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OOpZitfd0
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"We've ballsed it up old chaps, we accidentally managed to get a competent vaccination program up and running. So now not only have we given away the game that government can get things done, but worse, we're up against a shortening timeline in which to get as many deaths as possible." E; unrelated but I am gratified that my weird neurotic post about nostalgia was considered good by anyone Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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I played with a group over Discord and Roll20 without trouble, until we got into trouble because disability, sicknesses, work hours changing, and uni for assorted people made it impossible for us all to make a session
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Bad as Labour have been for much of my life I confess I'm blindsided by them going "No, we mustn't raise corporation tax!" in response to the tories going "we might need to raise corporation tax a bit"
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Lord of the Llamas posted:The problem is that they won't be invited onto question time every week with an audience that mysteriously appears to be hand picked from UKMT posters every week. "This fedora-wearing man with a wispy beard who asked about nationalizing Games Workshop has not only appeared on three previous Question Times, but we have now obtained evidence that he has been posting in UKMTs for over eight years! Panorama Exclusive 10pm tonight."
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Rumda posted:so yo u are saying that by not giving money to the party of Rosie Duffield and Jessflaps that i really just shooting myself in the foot because of all the member who may be more sympathetic to me, despite that money previously being used against the party's interest and by a party which shows at no point any desire to listen to it membership. Yeah like, being in Labour offers a theoretically greater chance of changing it than being outside Labour, but there has to be SOMETHING there being given to a prospective member in the first place. It can't be the job of trans people alone to enter the party and turn it around, we just don't have the numbers or money even if it was a morally acceptable burden to put on us. And even if it were both our job and pragmatically possible, we'd be better off doing it to the Tories anyway seeing as they're the ones who have power.
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crispix posted:NO this is only because Norn Iron's internet speed is only up to the level of being able to handle Usenet and IRC probably still have teletext over there (teletext owned don't @ me)
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Jel Shaker posted:i have noticed that a certain brand of irish large oats, flahavans, is completely sold out which is such an odd thing to have poorly stocked , unless it was usually in time delivered and welp, none are getting through anymore Yeah my folks used to get that but it's been replaced by another brand now
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Bobstar posted:Ok, it's a line he made up, but I recognise the sentiment. What's the point of being the best country in the world, if we don't have the best of everything? And these hypothetical Rotterdammers are right, the roads here are very good - but under this worldview, that's not enough, they've got to be better than the Belgians' roads, and the Germans'. In fairness if every country was competing to have the best public services the world would be a pretty tolerable place even if it did stem from wanting to be better than the Belgians.
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