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https://twitter.com/mlothianmclean/status/1356189801385500672?s=21 Not an easy read, but an important one.
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Feb 2, 2021 13:21
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Jel Shaker posted:yes the only way this works if you campaign for an alternative candidate Bristol Momentum is the main campaigning body in the southwest. Without them, the council and metro mayor campaigns in the area will barely have any volunteers - and no, South West Regional hasn't had the foresight to replace volunteer labour with paid labour. It's why their phonebanking campaign has barely got off the ground, which is kind of a problem because it's where they're getting all their voter information and policy polling from.
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Feb 2, 2021 14:40
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OwlFancier posted:Ah so he caught something else on holiday then? I mean, he was a hundred years old. There's not exactly a shortage of diseases that will hospitalise you at that age.
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Feb 2, 2021 17:26
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Went to Tesco, and saw that they do chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, and triple chocolate chip cookies, which makes me wonder - who actually buys the double chocolate ones? Seems like with cookies, you either want them to be a bit chocolatey or as chocolatey as is humanly possible. Is there in fact a thriving market for chocolate centrism?
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Feb 2, 2021 21:06
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Julio Cruz posted:triple chocolate have white chocolate chips in which some people don't like Ah, heretics.
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Feb 2, 2021 21:21
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Catzilla posted:How long until the ITV1 drama comes out about his life do you think? They'll likely have to gloss over quite a bit. The Burma campaign was... not the British Army's finest hour.
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Feb 3, 2021 13:07
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I really wish they'd do one of those Games Workshop hack and slash games where you get to be a champion of Chaos rather than an agent of the Empire/Imperium. C'mon, RPG customisation where you get to pick your god and become progressively more mutated would be rad as hell. Let me play as a Warrior of Slaanesh and obliterate an entire screenful of enemies in a tastefully-scented murder-orgy, or a Sorcerer of Tzeentch who turns the entire enemy army inside out and then makes them eat each other.
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Feb 3, 2021 16:11
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happyhippy posted:There are games like this yet to be made that are going to be brilliant. But not now. I mean, just having them as part of your gear (or have you grow them for specific attacks) in a Diablo clone would be fine. They already go part of the way there in Inquisitor, where tech-priests, for instance, can end up with quite different models and animations from armour set to armour set. The precise detail of the character model is never the most interesting thing in a hack and slash.
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Feb 3, 2021 18:50
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https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1357005006696816654?s=21 Dear lord. Man couldn't even find a defensible reason to get in a screaming row with Johnson.
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Feb 3, 2021 20:14
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stev posted:Out of interest what sort of stuff has Burgon said that hasn't gone down well? I've only recently seen him speaking about the Manchester tier nonsense and he came across really well in that. Eh, who loving cares at this point? The press are not our friends and will never be our friends, and we really don't have an alternative to taking them head-on these days.
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Feb 4, 2021 00:54
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Feb 4, 2021 14:00
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Borrovan posted:There's a bunch of evidence (that I cba to dig up) showing that Covid is disproportionately harmful to BAME people even after controlling for factors like income, housing and access to healthcare That said, this doesn't seem to carry over into BAME-majority countries, which suggests that it's unlikely to simply be a matter of biology.
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Feb 5, 2021 13:16
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Camrath posted:The Fudge Shop is open! The whiskey and ginger was excellent, so I'd like to see that making a comeback, and I deeply regret never trying the Irish cream.
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Feb 5, 2021 13:19
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Guavanaut posted:He's got an island in Canada. TBF, Canada has an absolute shitload of islands. I reckon a good number of them cost significantly less than the average London apartment.
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Feb 6, 2021 13:36
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Failed Imagineer posted:So that's 94% of terrorists committed to some variation of "establishing theocratic ethnostates where deviation from orthodoxy is punishable by death", and 6% other . Eh, I'd be kind of hesitant about conflating the causes and ideologies of Islamist and white fascist terrorists overmuch. The anger and resentment of the underclass and the anger and resentment of the middle class are a bit different - remember that fascism is usually defence of privilege under threat, which is why the 'white working class' approach to it is so bloody useless.
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Feb 8, 2021 14:09
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https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1360158159592169474?s=21 https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1360170898330972348?s=21 Note that Lee Harpin is the political editor of the Jewish Chronicle, and has been heavily involved in the Labour antisemitism business. It does look very much like they tried to derail the Forde Inquiry using a report to the ICO.
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Feb 12, 2021 14:22
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Convex posted:getting some extremely fashy vibes from France recently, moreso than usual Le Pen is literal fash, and that debate has her coming down on the side of civil liberties.
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Camrath posted:Fudge Update! Oh, dang. I was looking forward to the Irish cream, but I'd got used to monthly restocks. Not sure my household's diets can handle another fudge shipment this soon. Ah, well, maybe another time.
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Feb 12, 2021 21:09
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One thing worth considering, though, is how much influence the membership has over the direction of the party. This is one of the fundamental problems killing Labour - it's been profoundly undemocratic ever since Kinnock's reforms, making it unsuitable as a vehicle for a popular left-wing insurgency. Look at how quickly and easily the right-wing shitlords were able to take back control despite being a minority within the party who everyone hates. The Greens, on the other hand (and the Lib Dems, although that brand seems irrevocably tainted for the foreseeable future) seem to have a much healthier internal democracy, meaning that they're open to some good old-fashioned entryism from a tide of angry lefties. The current leadership may be poo poo and useless, but I'm not clear on how well fortified they are against an influx of Labour refugees, if they come ready and willing to grab what power they can. One important lesson to the left should be the value of ruthlessness and opportunism. If the leadership of all the national parties is poo poo, go for the ones that you and your mates can overthrow, sideline, or otherwise bend to your purposes most easily. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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To clarify, this was two months after she had been convicted, so it is actually as bad as it looks.
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Feb 13, 2021 13:23
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Jakabite posted:Except for the fact that there is zero political will to do so. I absolutely agree that this is exactly what we should do. But we aren't going to. And discussing things within thos parameters doesn't make you some Mengelian monster. You're saying that no political will exists for anything but Mengelian monstrosity or perma-lockdown, and then arguing for the former. Please at least take ownership of your support for policy that poo poo, and don't try to frame it as a morally virtuous position to take.
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Feb 13, 2021 14:08
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Any tips on good ways to sell a large number of old games (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 1) in a way that actually makes me money?
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Feb 13, 2021 15:09
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Libluini posted:It will never be completed. If they're dumb enough to actually try building it, the EU will soon after stop laughing and use political pressure to stop the project. And if Dictator Johnson stubbornly continues the project, it'll be blown up by French depth charges long before completion. Or the UK just collapses under a blockade, whichever happens first. Either way, the idea is dumb and stillborn. It's pure graft for whoever can get the money to then not build anything. It's a tunnel to Northern Ireland, so the EU may point and laugh but they won't actually care.
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Feb 14, 2021 15:24
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Private Speech posted:Yeah and it wouldn't even change anything about the trade barriers, which is the funniest part. One of NI's problems is the emerging trade barriers between it and Britain, so it would at least help with those.
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Feb 14, 2021 15:40
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Pistol_Pete posted:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/16/keir-starmer-leadership-urgent-course-correction-labour It's not just a 'Guardian article', it's a guest column by Starmer's loving leadership campaign director: https://twitter.com/tomkibasi/status/1246381534287998976?s=21
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https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1362362408682090496?s=21 lol, holy poo poo
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Feb 18, 2021 12:26
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https://twitter.com/direthoughts/status/1362842368181960709?s=21 https://twitter.com/direthoughts/status/1362842727277281281?s=21 Well then.
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Feb 19, 2021 21:09
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OwlFancier posted:I don't even know what the gently caress "islamo leftism" would be, is there some sort of liberation theology equivalent that exists? I mean, I can see a leftist movement doing a lot with zakat.
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Feb 20, 2021 14:31
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I don't know why anyone bothered making another shooter after TF2. I was absolutely killer as Pyro, which has the advantage of being one of those roles that everyone insists is an unskilled newbie role because they don't know how to counter having their rockets shoved back in their face, so they get really mad when you get a decent kill streak. Doom 2016 came out after TF2. You've played that, right?
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Feb 21, 2021 16:13
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therattle posted:I’m surprised this thread isn’t going to dismiss such data as being irrevocably tainted by ethnonationalism and immediately call for a boycott until another more acceptable country reproduces the results. It's the other way around - we know the data is good because they've got a large control population who they aren't bothering to vaccinate. Apartheid makes for excellent medical data in certain specific, woefully unethical ways.
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Feb 22, 2021 01:36
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https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1363633856818069507?s=21 bleak lol
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Feb 22, 2021 01:54
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MikeCrotch posted:I actually dispute this - one of the things about the Labour right is that they are actually a pretty fractious bunch, and most importantly *not actually that popular within the party*. This is why Starmer had to run as a pretend leftist to win - the actual open candidate of the right, Jess Phillips, melted down almost instantly. Turns out the right got what they wanted in the end anyway but only because Keith hoodwinked a bunch of people. Reeves has never been a stranger to open bigotry. Remember when she said Labour shouldn't and didn't represent people on benefits?
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Feb 22, 2021 11:50
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feedmegin posted:Ah, a sort of nationalist socialism. It genuinely wasn't. The Nazis were openly and explicitly pro-capitalist from day one, and the Strasserites (who honestly weren't that socialist either) were always on the fringe. Mass privatisation, persecution of trade unions, and cuts to welfare were always the order of the day. Hitler's main sales pitch to businesses after becoming chancellor was that democracy was incompatible with capitalism, and therefore should be done away with.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Feels loving cynical that they're not adjusting those deaths per capita. Oh look how much better we're doing now we're not in the stupid nasty EU. The FT graph does do that. It presents multiple options and settings, including deaths per capita, and the default seems slightly random - I rarely get the same selection of countries when I visit the page.
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I think it's genuinely worth remembering how organisationally crippled Labour is as a vehicle for any of the purposes of a political party, let alone a left-wing one. Kinnock and Blair destroyed its functionality, destroyed the tools necessary to rebuild its functionality, and essentially turned it into a machine for petty middle-management bigots to be paid to bully people. Most of the left's victories over the past thirty years have been despite Labour as an organisation, not because of it, even when those lefties were members of Labour. It desperately needs to go the way of the Liberal Party if we want some shot at political representation. Like, seriously, I'm on benefits due to chronic disabilities. In 2015, the Labour Shadow Secretary for Work And Pensions (the public's leading democratic representative against the government in matters related to welfare) said that her party should and would not represent people like me in the upcoming general election, at a time when the UK was facing international condemnation for human rights abuses against us. She's now the Shadow Cabinet Secretary, one of the leadership's most visible and prolific spokespeople. Labour is built to serve the same institutional purpose as the Guardian - to absorb and crush upsurges of progressivism and lend an air of bipartisanship to systemic bigotry.
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Feb 24, 2021 12:09
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I find it tends to be the bard because of the way they build around charisma, so every single interaction suddenly becomes a speech challenge. Given that damned near everything in D&D can be half-dragon, I feel like seducing one should not be a particularly challenging skill check. There are half-dragon gelatinous cubes, for Christ's sake.
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Comrade Fakename posted:In lighter news: There's a reason Naomi Klein (author of The Shock Doctrine and a bunch of other influential anti capitalist literature) has to keep going 'no, I'm not that Naomi'. Wolf's Wikipedia page is amazing, BTW.
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