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When I was little I didn't comprehend that places could share names so when I first heard about the Haymarket Massacre I was wilded out that something like that happened in the Haymarket Shopping Centre in Leicester Also it's a true shame that the American elite managed to suppress agitators back then, you'd never understand today that Chicago was such a hotbed of radical leftism that it's in the songs and stuff. Rip to a real one the Union of Socialist American States could have led the world. Solidarity to all the oppressed!
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May 1, 2021 19:39
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Pearson is a real weapons-grade weapon so it's not surprise she'd try to boost Fox and paint him as a principled, if perhaps a touch quixotic, figure nobly crusading against the woke mobs.
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May 3, 2021 06:00
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I've never sat out an election since I got old enough to vote but I ain't voting tomorrow, half the people (even from the big parties!) don't have any kind of details anywhere I can find and most of the rest are dangers.
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May 6, 2021 02:28
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Scot Greens are probably the most strongly pro-trans party in th UK atm
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May 6, 2021 05:28
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Darth Walrus posted:Right, but the Lib Dems have always specialised in local, decentralised politics. Each Lib Dem constituency party is practically a small, well-resourced political party in its own right, and they're really good at picking up councils by presenting a convincing argument that they're the professional adults who can fix your potholes, rebuild your leisure centre, and not have any embarrassing sex/bribery scandals. That message may not be true, of course, but they're very good at selling it. OwlFancier posted:There is probably a highly localised effort by the lib dems to take that council and/or some local issue in play. As I said they can go all over the place, council elections are weird and you basically need to just look at all the results to draw any real understanding out of it. Yeah this is what I intended to post like two hours ago before I got distracted bullying my friend online, Lib Dems can present themselves as really great on specific local issues in ways that boosts them well above their wider profile, and when you're talking about voter turnouts in the thousands or even hundreds, it's probably much easier for someone with a modicum of charisma (or just the ability not to seem like a wrong'un) to have an effect when they go around knocking on doors and poo poo. Especially as we're now probably far enough out that many people not in the national party can go "I hear you on the student fees, weren't me though guv" and be telling the truth and the old stink might adhere a little less?
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May 7, 2021 02:30
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Looking forward to Kieth owning the gently caress out of this: lmfao rekt
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May 7, 2021 02:36
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 So how do we think he's done lassies?
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May 7, 2021 02:40
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It's very bad that there is no credible opposition, but it's very good that this particular useless opposition is completely eating poo poo after they hosed the left over, repeatedly, and demanded our votes, money, and graft in return. We knew Labour was almost certainly dying, the worse they do the better because the sooner it's finally dead the sooner we can try something new.
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May 7, 2021 07:10
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:2. is there even anyone in labour who could take over that doesn't suck poo poo through a straw? did they all get purged? would starmer resigning even change a single thing? Yeah there are still some decent people in Labour - Zarah Sultana and Claudia Webbe to name a couple - but I doubt the centrists will ever allow a leftist in again after Corbyn and even if they got in it's hard to see how they rebuild the party at this point anyway, you'd need excellent policies with Obama-tier charisma AND the ability to prevent internal sabotage. Tbh Labour's dead
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May 7, 2021 07:40
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Just shameful how Jeremy Corbyn has now led the Labour Party to defeats in 2017, 2019, and 2021. When will he finally resign as leader?
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May 7, 2021 18:36
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Tbh the only way to save Labour now would be to stick someone like Zarah in charge and give her a degree of internal power that would make an Old Bolshevik blush. Seeing as that's not going to happen it's time we set up the inheritor of the soul of Labour, I'll start the wiki
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May 8, 2021 07:11
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Gonzo McFee posted:I've been playing the new Resident Evil and hear me out, the new Labour Leader should be an eight foot tall goth woman who could smash a man's skull with her tits. I feel this would unite the party. Excuse me but Lady Dimitrescu is 9'6"
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May 8, 2021 07:29
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Guavanaut posted:Why did I predict you'd have an extremely specific reply to that post? The gyre may be widening and the falcon may no longer hear the falconer, but by god I've got a brand and I'm sticking to it no matter the cost 
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May 8, 2021 17:37
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More glad than ever that my name ain't Kiir anymore
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May 9, 2021 22:47
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I don't think Boris is physiologically capable of enacting a scheme as mundane and achievable as "build houses and get people owning them", it's all got to be 30 km long bridges over a munitions abyss or subterranean, suboceanic tunnel networks which include a roundabout bigger than the Isle of Mann.
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May 10, 2021 07:49
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I think all polls should have that option so whenever you ask someone a question there's always a risk of a large ginger person screaming "AH'M SCOTTISH!" back at you, as they are right to do.
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May 10, 2021 22:07
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Mr Phillby posted:I really want to know if these emails were actually sent from a spoof email address and if it was actually possible to deduce they were phishing emails or if this was just a complete gently caress you to the workers. Plus even if that was something you could figure out, doesn't phishing tend to involve, like, having to enter your sensitive details? At this point it's literally just "You clicked a link, you idiot, you moron" when in a real attempt you would click a link, go to a fake site, and then go "Wait why doesn't my employer know my details, this should be getting handled by payroll surely?" (Or not if you actually need to learn about fishing )
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May 10, 2021 22:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:People I know honestly believe that the Palestians kill '000s of Israelis every year. Gorn Myson posted:It'll always comeback to "Israel has a right to defend itself". Thats the line. Theres no mention of Palestine being in the same position because they will always be perceived as the aggressors. It's these two + the fact Israel is mates with some big countries (US and us among others) so won't get their nose broken with a mighty headbutt. They have extremely successfully cast themselves as poor, beleagured, plucky little Israel standing firm in the face of an implacable enemy that does 9/11s on them on a monthly basis.
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May 11, 2021 04:25
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People have been arguing that demographics are destiny with regards to boomers for decades now and other people have been saying "We've been saying that for years and nothing has changed" for almost as long. Both sides miss something. We're only now in the '20s going to start seeing the boomer cohort dying off in significant numbers - the eldest boomers are still a couple of years short of the average lifespan and the youngest are only in their mid-50s - so I would argue that even if demographics are 100% destiny that destiny still isn't likely to arrive until like 2030. On the flipside is of course that this is only one factor among many. We know that people's political views tend to firm up in their 20s and become harder to change after that, but we also know gaining wealth makes people more likely to think they earned it and to become more protective of it. I don't think we have any idea how those interact, and those are just two factors amongst the endless number of things that make up a person. Political parties have realigned themselves before, and more broadly than any specific political party or project, out-groups have been redefined so they fit into the in-group definition in order to maintain a status quo, e.g. the Americans realising that the Irish, as some of the whitest people in the world, are white. Or conversely the way the Republicans were trying to figure out how to bring Latinos into the in-group definition and then decided "actually no, nativism is better". But either way, for demographics to be destiny people still need a credible alternative - demographics are not destiny inherently, but they are most assuredly a great opportunity.
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May 12, 2021 19:43
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DarkCrawler posted:I'd love to help out our British friends in their time of need (vaccinated, love London) but I fear I'm going to be tossed into whatever the British equivalent of Guantanamo Bay is at the moment: As usual the UK continues to do things in the worst possible way. Most places either just herd you off to get on literally the next flight back home with a seat, or will say "You're forbidden from working but we will allow you to enter the country for a few days because we understand you've got a lot of plans that will need to be changed, you're staying with family and at a known address, and you have a purpose here in a familial visit outside of the work you were intending to do. Please ensure you're out of the country by X date." And indeed it looks like we do exactly that with some people but not others? Seems like the sensible thing to do would be to go to Arrivals, collect the person there to meet the passenger, and bring them back to the office to have a chat and figure things out. As with so much else you can be reasonable and meet people halfway, leading to a productive outcome, or you can be a fashy oval office, leading to everyone being angry and hostile, and the UK chooses fashy. Very similar to the coppers "Solve mental health crises by beating the poo poo out of people what have mental health problems" option! Dabir posted:Now look 'ere constable, dis is wot we in da Ferapist Squad call CBT, wot is a very complicated an' effective way to prevent soo-side-al-ty in a scumbag. Only problem here is I would be entirely tempted to do it again so I could get another CBT session 
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May 14, 2021 20:35
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I just think it's cool they made a Jojo movie in the West that was actually good. Imagine if it was another ATLA.
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May 17, 2021 06:36
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Labour had to scrape the barrel last time. What do yo do after that? All that's left is the Prince That Was Promised, the King Under the Mountain (across the pond), David Miliband.
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May 17, 2021 08:54
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Ravel posted:I'm finally able to book a vaccination. Is it preferable to choose a smaller center or a larger one? Am I likely to experience delays at a larger one? Nah I reckon the larger ones are going to be organized and experienced at this point, well able to handle problems that might crop up. I had mine last week at the nearby hospital and it was smooth and efficient. Just go for whatever's most convenient imo.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A random thought that someone much more clever has probably already come up with and rejected, but one thing that I think makes the UK quite so TERF-y is the underlying structure of society. American feminists fought to make women the legal and societal equals to men because the national myth of America is based on equality, while the British flavour of radical feminism (people always forget what the RF stands for) actually tried to establish women as a separate and privileged class because the British national character is still absolutely class-riven. As with many analyses I don't think this is the whole story but this one has quite a bit to commend it. I will definitely say that transphobia from terfs has a far more vicious feel to it, subjectively, than from other parts of society. Maybe that's because I'm inured to what is, as you say, more-or-less just reheated homophobia, but the root of it being "Ew it's gross" or "God made you an [X] for a reason" just doesn't seem to hit as hard or animate as hatefully as "Your existence is an existential threat to my philosophy". And your average transphobic right-winger is more likely to just make a helicopter joke and forget about the whole thing whilst the terves seem to dedicate their entire lives to hatred with a zeal and focus usually reserved for particularly devout faithful of the Emperor. Red Oktober posted:I’m back from Edinburgh for the week, where I got engaged! Now time to make some “engagement beer” for the celebrations! Oh nice, grats!!
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