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Communist Thoughts posted:full english is great, i'd get rid of the tomatoes too
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They must have installed it backwards, don't tell them, you're in for a tasty windfall when you get everyone else's electricity bux
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Mar 1, 2021 21:40
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bessantj posted:It's not as if you can't have people that have vast wealth and eliminate poverty. It's just the people with power (and usually by extension the wealth) don't want to. But people defend the ultra wealthy "oh they work so hard for their money". I know people that work 72 hours a week building and maintaining the UKs rail network or buulding buildings and are set to make around £30k. Are we to believe that the ultra rich work so much harder than these people? (I know I'm shouting into the void.) Of course, they never get to be the rich. If you work hard enough to make money for the rich, you can have lots of the same stuff, but you still have to loving work. Living stress-free off the labour of others is almost entirely for hereditary wealth (a few tech billionaires/very lucky entrepreneurs excepted). The minute they stop working their arses off to make money for the actual rich, they're done, back on the scrapheap. It's solely a one-way identification, and their bosses are laughing at them. I think the fact that you've got to do so much loving work to play at pretend wealth means that only people who are prepared to blind themselves to the fact that they're nothing but lapdogs are prepared to actually do it. And once they start down that path, there's a big old sunk cost fallacy preventing themselves from acknowledging that they're being exploited. So, they carry on defending the people who laugh at them, because what, am I wrong or something? I deserve nice things. This was the right choice. Anyone who says the system that gives me them is unfair must just be jealous. No time to think on it, anyway, I've only got a few hours to sleep after this second bottle of wine before I'm back to work. Hard work is a good thing. (yes obviously the middle class are not exploited to the same degree as the 72-hour £30k labourer, but it's still exploitation of the same type, this is my thesis on why middle class proletarians identify with their oppressors & get really loving angry when you point out that the rich don't do any loving work)
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Mar 2, 2021 09:51
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e: ^^^^yeah serious answer, I don't think it's helpful to define the high-earning worker as a different class to the low-earning worker, they have the same relationship to capital. There's also an argument to be made that, with the rise in bogus self employment & private pensions, "owns some capital" is also not a useful distinction. You either have to work for a living (or live off table scraps), or you don't, imo.Failed Imagineer posted:You can just say petite bourgeoisie Borrovan posted:The problem is petite bourgeoisie Doesn't quite scratch the void-screaming itch though Borrovan fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 10:00
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My old neighbour put a leaflet through my door saying that I shouldn't get one because all the wifis and microwaves cause cancer and something about Bill Gates. It even had a study on it, by somebody with a PhD and everything Personally I'd probably have taken more issue with the 30 or so wifi networks in that building than maybe one or 2 smart devices in a locked room behind the laundry, if I were a crazy person I guess I just don't have what it takes
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Mar 2, 2021 12:23
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Josef bugman posted:I think most of the people who enjoy the idea of other people having things like that happen to them would baulk at the idea that they need to wake up early.
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Mar 2, 2021 16:48
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ed: why is only said of lefties: "s/he is a card-carrying member of the Communist/Labour/SWP/whatever party" and I never hear anyone except me say "s/he is a card-carrying member of the Tory/UKIP/Brexit/BNP/other proto-fascist party". Same with religions: you only ever here of devout roman catholics / muslims / jews / hindus. You never hear of 'devout anglicans' even though there are many.  Serious answer though, the reason you don't hear that about tories because most prominent journalists (including literally all of the big names at the BBC) are or were card carrying members of the Tory party (in fact, most of them have actually held office in Tory-affiliated organisations). It'd be nice to see the BBC preface every article with "Prominent Tory activist Laura Kuenssberg/Nick Robinson/whomever claims that..." but, uh, I don't think they're gonna choose to do that. Their viewpoint is just the default, obviously. It's all those other weirdos you've got to watch out for.
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Mar 3, 2021 10:14
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anglicans aren't ROMAN catholics though!  (that'll teach me for posting whilst half-heartedly explaining to a very small group of students feigning technical issues that if they're not going to prepare for seminars I'm not going to teach them and they'll just have to come back tomorrow) ((I had also not prepared))
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Mar 3, 2021 11:12
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Private Speech posted:How does the tracking of people who have or have not filled it work? Do you have to put in your name and stuff. I worked as a census collector last time round, they basically give you a list of addresses that haven't returned and you go door-to-door finding out what the deal was.
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Mar 3, 2021 12:13
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Jose posted:They're going all out
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Mar 3, 2021 12:34
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OwlFancier posted:parliament lost the majority of its high profile eggs 
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Mar 3, 2021 13:21
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MikeCrotch posted:which is even closer to Osborne style austerity than Sunak We can probably expect more of this imo
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Mar 3, 2021 14:14
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MikeCrotch posted:Just maddening how the current leadership has managed to pin themselves to economic policy that is both morally wrong and unpopular at the same time It's also ineffective and counterproductive (e:^  )
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Mar 3, 2021 14:20
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a pipe smoking dog posted:you might be right, I've been a bit vague on what actually happened other than that he isn't legally speaking a sex pest "Not guilty" (the other 11 verdicts) also doesn't mean he's not a sex offender, there's no "definitely innocent" verdict The presumption of innocence is very important in law, but we don't have to use it in, like, everyday judgement. In my personal authority I find the defendant double-dog-guilty of Being A Wrong 'Un
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Mar 3, 2021 18:25
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I know poo poo-all about Scots law or the criminal law in general, but "not guilty" isn't the same as "innocent", it's still a presumption. My understanding is that both kinds of acquittal basically mean "not proven", expressly finding "not proven" just carries an unspoken "but c'mon, look at him"
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Mar 3, 2021 18:35
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e: ^ you stole my example, from the past  Angepain posted:oh, is that what the cardassian legal system in deep space nine was based on To take a legalistic example, it sometimes happens that someone will be found not guilty in criminal proceedings ("beyond reasonable doubt") but then successfully sued in the civil courts ("balance of probability", i.e., more likely than not). There's not enough evidence to justify the complete denial of liberty, but enough to say "they probably did it so they've got to pay damages". To take a less legalistic example, if someone was found not guilty of a dozen independent child sex offences, I'm not going to hire them as a babysitter. If someone gets accused of abusing their partners, it's absolutely right to believe the victims, and exclude probable abusers from settings where they can cause harm. It doesn't translate into criminal justice, because the complete denial of liberty is a big loving deal and should not be done unless it's all but certain (if then  ), but the fact of the matter is that domestic abuse and sexual offences are incredibly hard to prove beyond reasonable doubt because they happen behind closed doors, and that does not mean that we should tell victims to just deal with it.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:00
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Remember when Jiminy Croblyn wanted to end the public sector pay freeze? Just think how many underpaid workers that would have pushed into the tax system. Monster.
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Mar 4, 2021 12:40
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namesake posted:Except thats a pay increase policy meaning the policy itself is increasing incomes directly with a secondary impact on tax payments. Talking about how a change in tax codes will affect taxation and who pays it is different.
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Mar 4, 2021 13:11
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peanut- posted:
Seriously if he were PM right now he'd be being bodied for Stalinism, but if he hadn't gotten so bodied on Brexit & was still LOTO we'd be well in the lead right now
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ngl it took me a fair while to work out what sorcery you'd invoked here
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Mar 4, 2021 22:05
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big scary monsters posted:The optical effect is real and can be recorded on camera, but your brain's interpretation that the ship is above the water is in error.
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Mar 5, 2021 15:08
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Wait why doesn't the light coming off the water do the same thing 
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Mar 5, 2021 15:12
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:nothing else he needs a long-rear end timeout.
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Mar 7, 2021 14:44
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EvilHawk posted:I do wonder if there's been conversations about skipping over Charles and going straight to William. He's younger so likely to be in the position for 40+ years, has a nice young (white) family, and doesn't have the baggage that Charles does. If you're concerned about rising republican sentiment following the death of the Queen who has all sorts of emotional connections to people, what you don't want to do is follow that with 20 years of someone people don't particularly like. They were absolutely certain about this, and these are people who love the royals & support the monarchy. idgi e: I get the implication that Brenda is going to murder her firstborn son, it's the "& that's cool & normal" that stumps me
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Mar 8, 2021 09:48
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Lungboy posted:This seems great, now kick out the TERFs and the woowoo mystic healing dickheads and the Greens might be worth a vote It's only been like 15 months, I'm still gonna judge them by their actual tangible actions when they actually had the power to affect something
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Mar 8, 2021 10:03
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Aramoro posted:There's mandatory reading material which is all just screenshots of other peoples instagram posts, if an admin replies to your comment you must reply to them or they prob you. Half the posts are just calls to brigade some American's social media posts for being racist (this is a 100% UK based group). The other half are links to news stories where 'wheat' people are expected to reply with how bad it is, or risk being banned.
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Mar 8, 2021 10:49
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MikeCrotch posted:DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE POSTBOXES SAID ER ON THEM?!?! BRING THEM BACK!!!!!!! I am 100% sure this is an actual thing that a sovcit has said in earnest at some point and no I will not bother checking to find out
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Mar 8, 2021 11:23
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e: ^^^ yeah that's bullshit, everyone knows you ban them first & then demand  if they want to be unbannedVagabong posted:Didn't he try and orchestrate a fascist coup?
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Mar 8, 2021 13:19
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Jedit posted:Now think about the contexts in which you might get into trouble for saying "White". e: DAMMIT
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Mar 8, 2021 14:59
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feedmegin posted:Didn't we have a poster who was mad keen on this before he was threadbanned
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Mar 8, 2021 16:17
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OwlFancier posted:People who complain about others being too sensitive are often extremely sensitive about their own ideas and I don't think that hypocrisy is really a problem for them, because the people who like them are much the same way, the point is merely the dominance of their ideas, and if throwing a big flounce is a useful tactic they will do it. For all that they might claim to be above that, in reality the thing that really matters is dominating the situation, the pretense of seriousness and factuality is only as a method of dominating, and refusing to participate when they find it unpleasant is just another form of it. CW for transphobia: the terf "1+1=2" slogan is the most infuriating example of this, because they're basically flat-out admitting that they're just axiomatically assuming that they're right (e: & also because its monstrous). All of the other terf arguments are derived from a false assumption, and you can't argue with the fuckers because it's a loving axiom to them. There's just no point in engaging with these types of argument, people always try to challenge the extra steps papering over the core assumption and it's just a waste of time. "[x assumption] is bullshit, gently caress off" is about all you can say. Borrovan fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 10:21
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Completely off-topic, I seem to remember a while back some Tory arguing that Mr. Potter was the hero in It's A Wonderful Life. I'm using him in a lecture as an example of why subjectively believing yourself to be acting properly shouldn't be relevant in law (discussing a particular doctrine in which it is relevant), and don't want to pass up an opportunity to bash the Tories in front of 250 students. Can anyone remember who it was? e: apparently Javid said it was his favourite film whilst also being a Randroid, it could be that I just assumed he thought that Borrovan fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 10:40
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That reminds me: I currently have a load of renal cat food, a large bag of litter & an outdoor "cat house" in the back of my car as the woman who I'm a carer for's cat died over the weekend so I took it all away to make it a bit easier for her. Guessing a sanctuary wouldn't have any need for the house, & it'd probably cost more in postage for everything else than it would to just buy fresh stuff - but, the house itself probably cost a bit, so if anyone wants it I could probably stuff the food inside (not sure the litter would fit), wrap it up & post it? I don't mind covering the postage if anyone's in need, or if you feel like paying it forward just chuck some money to whatever charity you want (or Jaeluni's thing) e: actually now I look at it the renal cat food costs a bomb so I'll probably just send that to the shelter, as I guess they'll have some cats with kidney trouble. Jaeluni, could you PM me an address for them if you think they'll want it? Still happy to sent the cat house to whomever Borrovan fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 13:01
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I thought it was snowflakes Or possibly human rights laws
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Mar 9, 2021 15:28
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An academic engineer I know put in a module proposal on the importance of diversity in engineering. It had some really interesting stuff in it, not just on representation &c but on specific problems resulting from (e.g.) nobody noticing that people other than cishet white men exist. It was not accepted. The higher-ups in the school of engineering didn't think it was important.
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Mar 9, 2021 16:18
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big scary monsters posted:I agree that more overlap in education would be good, but that then gets into lots of other big questions about higher education. UK degrees are probably too short even for the core content they are meant to cover, introducing mandatory modules in unrelated fields would make that worse. If your education system is intended to give you the bare minimum skills employers want and/or a piece of paper to prove that you could afford to go to university then this is all working as intended. If it's meant to be for the pursuit of knowledge, self-betterment, producing well-rounded people, a better society and all that then it's failing in a lot more ways that I can't work up the will to type about because it's too much and too disheartening. It's not gonna happen given the commodification of education, it'd just be great for society if people had a more rounded worldview, & great for the individuals too: I see so many students who are obvious on the wrong course and making themselves miserable, but there's so many pressures that by the time they've
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Necrothatcher posted:I'm fully expecting the total number of patients seen to be criminally low - and gently caress them if they lean on COVID as justification for that.  ", which is why it's important to get the facts straight imoTACD posted:I’m assuming it’ll reveal an absolutely massive increase in people identifying as trans over the last census that will show how woefully inadequate the current system is. which I guess is why the transphobe lobby is kicking off that people are allowed to record their gender identity
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Mar 10, 2021 10:15
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Rumda posted:If should be filled out as if it was done on the 21st by the 21st "please tell us what guests you were illegally entertaining so we can make a note of it, & I guess you can confess to whatever other crimes you're doing as well if you feel like it"
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Mar 10, 2021 10:22
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I think the argument is that actually its too high, because everyone else is waiting years for an appointment so how did those 2 people jump the queue? Like in general its low and bad gut given the actual situation that number should be zero. (& the actual number should be 100% with a much smaller queue, obviously, waiting a year sounds like torture) Rumda posted:I have mine this afternoon...
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A comrade of mine from Netpol asked me to sign this petition about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, you should all sign it too: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/protect-the-freedom-to-protest (yes I know petitions are massive wastes of energy, but Netpol is a great organisation & can be trusted to actually keep pushing once it gets ignored)
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