Communist Thoughts posted:

What did people think koeths previous job was if not to sign off on state crimes and atrocities?

That's why he was selected to kill labour to facilitate a new crime against democracy

In 30 years it'll be revealed he was a plant and people will go "oh"

Kin posted:

And is any of this covered in the press? No, because it's "Sturgeon bad", in an attempt to assassinate her political career to derail independence.

Rumda posted:

That is not a thing you get to decide

I don't need to activly look for it I've had enough of letting microaggressions slide people in this thread can and should do better.

Just like this avatar change seriously is that the best you can loving do?

bump_fn posted:

wait buying a red text is bullying now lol

The Perfect Element posted:

I really feel like we're witnessing the death throes of boomerism and neoliberalism play out in front of us.

The way the press is ignoring the protests, the loving headline death threats against Harry and Meghan, its just all so febrile and mental, but all controlled by a dying media consumed primarily by people who are in their 60s or older.

Labour are haemorrhaging supporters because they have become the 'don't rock the boat' party, but eventually they or someone else will realise that they need the support of the next generation, who think that fascism and structural inequality are bad actually, and that will be the dominant philosophy.

So this descent into fascism we're experiencing now is a horrible, ugly spasm of a dying ideology, and it won't last.

We just have to hope it doesn't take too long, or claim too many victims before it ends.


(or all the above is bollocks, and we're all hosed)

kecske posted:

childhood books have taught me that the best way to defeat rats is lots of mice and other woodland creatures wearing tunics and/or jerkins

Dead Goon posted:

Had my Astra Zeneca injection this morning.

It was alright.

crispix posted:

was 3 days before pfizer side effects hit me suddenly in the middle of a saturday and they lasted near 2 weeks lol

Isomermaid posted:

Reckon that's how it's going to go, more and more though. The next pandemic, climate change... these are the things that are going to take us down, we won't get to live out our last days dying comfortably of old age with a loved one in a cottage in the woods. Its not how it should be, but I feel like it's hopeless. No point saving for the future if you can't save the future.

Communist Thoughts posted:

Like everything facing society its just getting folded into the culture war so we can be split down the middle arguing about the most rudimentary or nonsensical elements of it

E that's why the cops did the big photoshoot defending Churchill so this can all become part of the pro or anti statue argument

Ash Crimson posted:

People probably thought I was being absurdly hyperbolic when I said the UK's approach to transitioning is to essentially force a trans person to desist or die waiting if they cannot afford private sector healthcare

Its increasingly clear that's the official plan.

Inaction/apathy is in itself an action; the vast majority of cis people simply don't give enough of a poo poo for this to change anytime soon , even if they hold positive, affirming views towards trans people.

Answers Me posted:

https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1371791766647681024?s=21

They are absolutely going to lose that seat

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Article by Diane Abbott on Labour abstaining on human rights issues (or, rather, Starmer insisting on abstentions.)

https://labourlist.org/2021/03/labour-needs-to-think-about-the-merit-of-any-legislation-not-the-red-wall/



Not sure the public is that horrified to be honest, not now the cops have hitched the vigil to the BLM, XR and anti-statues-of-appalling-racists/genocidists/slaver-protests.

Guavanaut posted:

IllusionistTrixie posted:

I don't know if I could even bring myself to vote Labour to "keep the tories out" these days. It almost feels like tacit approval and at least write in candidate, "none of these bastards" has a measure of catharsis.

Guavanaut posted:

Segregationist car park guy.

The white zone is for short stay and fighting only.

CoolCab posted:

alright, on that topic, here's the other thing i wrote on it this week


and that's this thread! only surpassing our self contradiction with our self loathing. but we feel like we're together when we punish ourselves for it. i think about this story when i interact with this thread a lot.

therattle posted:

Well, a lot of black and brown-skinned people probably would be better off if whitey hadn't come along. But that's probably not what they meant.

Namtab posted:

Who was that poster who wanted to fight in the car park behind ASDA.

OwlFancier posted:

That sounds like exactly the sort of behaviour I would expect from, like, basically all political parties tbh and just reinforces my dislike of the drat things. lovely people out for their own lovely enrichment or empowerment and trading off everyone else for credibility.

Appreciate you filling in the details Rumda cos that sounds shite and good to know I should keep them at arms length.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I already said this is the real solution to the problems of the regions, just make the plane out of the black box everything London. Extend the Travelcard to zone 256, rename Cornwall West Uxbridge, teach Glaswegians to do the Lambeth Walk, you'll all have amazing public transport, terrifying pub prices, and surprisingly reasonable council tax in no time.

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1375538103667023872

Sorry, English folks, but I'm doing unilateral independence by going to the border with a shovel and just digging a big ditch to snap us off like a kitkat.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Still pretty sure Boris Johnson only stands out because he seems to actually want to have sex with adult, consenting human females, which is a rarity for the English

How is this country real, I thought Disney made it up for the movie with the foxes everyone wants to gently caress

Communist Thoughts posted:

I assume ZG just hasn't been following tings since 2019 and so hasn't experienced the dawning horror of actually following what smithers has been up to

There's gonna be a lot of people like that I think who just sorta vaguely know him as boring but forensic from the telly

Ms Adequate posted:

nothing good is ever going to happen, the world is going to mostly die and a few lucky ones will be enserfed to maintain the billionaire compounds, all that remains is to laugh at the maximum chaos that occurs on the way to oblivion.