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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Ooh, nutty fudge. That does sound nice. Chocolate fudge with ground hazelnut (or whatever other means you can feasibly use to make fudge hazelnutty) seems like it could be a big hit.

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

happyhippy posted:

Is there a subset of Royal followers that don't like Harry?

I mean, yeah? Why does this surprise you?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

therattle posted:

I’ve never understood why people on the right of the party are in the party at all and not in the LDs or Tories. Why be in a party which doesn’t share your values?

Because they don't think of it as a matter of values. They want employment in the business of politics, either for life or as a platform to better jobs later, and they go with who's hiring.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Jose posted:

glenn can defend himself i just think calling him fascist because of where he appears is dumb as poo poo

The Daily Caller is an actual, no-poo poo white supremacist site, though. It's like doing a Q&A on Stormfront.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Jose posted:

no its not. yeah its a very right wing site but this hyperbole doesn't help anyone

It's got an entire Wikipedia section on its ties to white supremacists, and Carlson isn't exactly covert about his views. The gently caress are you going on about?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Gonzo McFee posted:

I think Glenn just has the kind of brain you get when you're the Owen Jones of Brazil and the actual government goes after you. It's not healthy.

That doesn't explain the racism, though. If anything, it does the opposite.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Jose posted:

someone should get their white house press pass pulled then

I mean, yeah? Since when were you under the impression that being an open white supremacist who paraphrases the Fourteen Words on air would prevent you from getting a White House press pass?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
I mean on the one hand, this is Jose being Jose as usual and the normal etiquette would be to ignore and move on, but on the other hand, this is starting to push really close to literal fascist apologia.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Scikar posted:

I mean I can totally believe that Greenwald has gone far enough off the deep end that he's fash now, but he does at least have past of standing up to Bolsonaro so I'd like to see some evidence of that, preferably not in the form of a video clip.

Your argument at this point is that he's fash because he has joined a fash show, and the show is fash because he's joined it.

You could always just read the Wikipedia article on the Daily Caller. They're a fash site led by a fascist.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Scikar posted:

Sorry, I meant more about Greenwald turning fash rather than the show being such. It's like when he started regularly appearing on Fox instead of blanking them, because he believed he could somehow counteract their propaganda. It's weird and dumb, but not proof in itself that he's now fash.

He's not exactly working to counteract the Caller's propaganda, though.

https://twitter.com/dailycaller/status/1367286172347736066?s=21

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Scikar posted:

That's their tweet though, like the whole reason it's a dumb idea is because obviously they will just chop up anything he says and edit it to support more of their propaganda, now with a thin veneer of 'balance'.

The outcome is pretty much the same, and Greenwald sucks so I don't really care enough to do my own digging into everything he's said recently. But I still think we should differentiate between "marketplace of ideas" idiots who play the game thinking they can win, and the actual fash like Bannon, Breitbart who are actively pushing the fash side and would continue to do so if they were in a vacuum.

You could click through and read the article. It contains gems like this:

quote:

“I think the vision is, you know, you have this kind of right wing populism, which really is socialism, that says we should close our borders, not allow unconstrained immigration, and then take better care of our own working class people, and not allow this kind of transnational, global, corporatist elite to take everything for themselves under the guise of neoliberalism,” Greenwald said.

Socialism, famous for being all about keeping the filthy immigrants out.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Jedit posted:

"Until the day before", he says.

This one could hit them harder, though. Their readership would have been big fans of Hitler when the Mail supported him, but they are big fans of the Royals and this time the Mail are against them.

Why on earth do you think Daily Mail royalists like Meghan Markle?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Guavanaut posted:

Who the gently caress is Shahrar Ali anyway and why are they so concerned about what gender children have when they claim we're in the middle of a climate emergency more important than anything else?

e: ^^ About 8 months ago.

He's the former deputy leader of the Green Party, who decided that rallying a TERF army against the current incumbents was his path to power when the most recent leadership election rolled around. It failed miserably (he went from a close competitor for first place to finishing in a distant third), but it did secure him a place as King of the Shitheads in the party.

So he doesn't represent the policy of the party as a whole, but he's the present head of their vocal minority rear end in a top hat faction.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
lol, holy poo poo

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Failed Imagineer posted:

Has anyone been to Charles' weird utopian Disney village? Would love to see an effort post about what the gently caress is actually going on there (other than paedo stuff and Hot Fuzz-style death cults)

My family travelled through there once. There was a bone auction going on in the town square. As in, a literal auction of little bags of bones.

I was quite glad we were able to leave before sundown.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

More brexshite:

https://twitter.com/DeborahMeaden/status/1369217350294249473?s=20


Catte tax:

As some of you know, I support (in a small way) a small cat sanctuary in Gloucestershire that looks after 'complicated cats' https://www.complicatedcats.com/About
with various conditions, some requiring special food, and relies on donations.

Anyway, if any of you have any spare bobs to chuck about, here's their amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/2V1KHLYQY0Z8M

According to Sainsbury's, this is due to an increase in demand rather than a lack of supply. A lot of people bought pets during lockdown.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
One dark little detail I didn't realise until now was one of the key reasons for Harry and Meghan's current media-blitzing celeb launch - they need enough money to privately fund a security detail suitable for a prince and princess of the British royal family. Diana lasted only two years after Buckingham Palace cut her off from their security coverage.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

multijoe posted:

I don't think Diana's problem was a lack of British security services

You can certainly argue that her problem was a lack of security personnel on her payroll, though.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Couldn't be happier to see anyone in the world leap to becoming a born again christian who rails against gay people for a living than him.

He can team up with graham linehan it'll be great, just the most unlikeable people in the world trying to sell the worst ideas. Hope he's really miserable all the time about it too.

E: Oh my god it's wonderful, I clicked through to his article and he is literally counting every day he doesn't "sin" it's amazing, definitely not thinking about it all the time and being miserable about it.

E2: he does go loving lovecraftian about the concept of trans people so fair warning if you intend to follow but he also sounds like he's gone balls deep on catholic guilt and I could not be happier about it.

Milo has previously said that being gay is more fun when it's illegal. There is absolutely zero chance that he is genuinely abstaining from sex - he's just found a way to monetise his kink.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

thespaceinvader posted:

They are clearly very ready to take over from the tories, in that they will keep doing exactly what the tories are doing, like dutiful centrists.

They can't even muster enough competence and conviction to make a case for that, though.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1369972425392283653?s=21

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1369976219333197824?s=21

Goddamn, that's the editor of LabourList (usually a model of interfactional neutrality) chewing Starmer out over this.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

CoolCab posted:

i guess, does it matter what starmer does or doesn't do at this point? he'd be competing with loving lazarus if he could revive the party's chances in may.

I dunno, he could manage the comedy option of dropping Labour below the Lib Dems or Greens if he really puts his back into it.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Abstaining on a bill that legalises rape, torture, and murder by undercover police, and then responding to a Special Branch officer killing a woman by calling for the government to hire more police.

Incredible politicking. Absolutely incredible.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

ItohRespectArmy posted:

keith is one bad day away from rebranding labour to the BUF

https://twitter.com/peterayersbfg/status/1360507311249326082?s=21

I feel like 'bad day' is an extremely subjective phrase where Starmer is concerned.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Why does his face look like it was badly photoshopped in every picture he's in?

Ironically, the picture you're asking that about also provides the answer.

Whisky bloat is a hell of a thing.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1370434351045967874?s=21

Huh, wonder what happened here?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
The plot thickens:

https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1370463095848640513?s=21

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

suck my woke dick posted:

So it sounds like they found some trots to weed out?

Could be more sinister than that - the early reports mentioned antisemitism allegations, and those are Muslim-heavy constituencies.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1370501248227667968?s=21

Jesus Christ, again?

This is starting to smell seriously Epsteinish.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

XMNN posted:

idk if it's explicitly why she said it but I assumed it was a response to the police telling women that they shouldn't be outside alone at night?

On this note, can we maybe talk about the message sent by the police waiting around for a while and then going in heavy on this particular protest as soon as the sun went down?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/hardeep_matharu/status/1370889708104998918?s=21

lol, jesus gently caress

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1371019326313148419?s=21

Be interesting to see how this pans out.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1371060342776823808?s=21

Starmer folded.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Barry Foster posted:

they're stupid, short sighted and concerned wholly with the short term

efb

It's not stupid to only be concerned with how things will be in your country until the end of your own life. Morally reprehensible, yes, but not stupid. A bunch of rich old fucks get their last twenty years of comfort, safety, and luxury, and that's their job done. It genuinely doesn't matter what happens afterwards.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1371451758971658240?s=21

lol Lib Dems.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Julio Cruz posted:

there are going to be more Labour rebels than there are Tory

They're being whipped to oppose, and the right of the party are attacking the bill from the right via some bizarre moon-logic. I genuinely don't think there's an obvious rebel faction here.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I'm sick of hearing about vaccinations, I don't think I'll get one

You could always just shop around for one with deafness as a side-effect.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

peanut- posted:

It's a really interesting litmus test for where the 2019 Labour -> Brexit Party voters will go. Do they revert to Labour or will they actually cross the Rubicon and vote Tory?

https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1371802987199365127?s=21

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

serious gaylord posted:

Even better they're going to put sober police officers in clubs who certainly won't abuse this fact.

Bold assumption that the undercover cops are going to be sober.

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

peanut- posted:

I assume the actual plan is

1. Say that undercover cops will patrol nightclubs
2. Do nothing
3. Say that undercover cops are patrolling nightclubs
4. Con 45% (+2)

And lose the opportunity for a massive spike in drug arrests (evidence optional)? Seriously?

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