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Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


An incredibly good cause, but, er, maybe not the best way to publicise it:

https://twitter.com/SistersUncut/status/1455166376960745472

Ring's on the wrong finger.

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Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Didn’t we have a whole back and forth defending Shrek in this thread a while ago? Well, HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME:

https://twitter.com/01iver00/status/1456015686522834945

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Cancel culture strikes again:

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1456267874150932505

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


It is a bit weird. Should be obvious to everyone that they would have had a week of bad press and by a months time the poll numbers would be back to the Tories on +10 or whatever.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1456572998404743171

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/periuspb/status/1456668555433451535

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/War_Takes/status/1456679465099091969

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Holy poo poo, maybe the Tories are in trouble:

https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1456750179470675980

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Lol the government is now officially worse than the regime from V for Vendetta:

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1456770862766559240

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


big scary monsters posted:

It was like 120,000 in the Cameron years from austerity alone. At this point they're just doing victory laps.

Yeah, but that was (disgracefully) a relatively obscure fact. Everyone knows the government killed 100,000 people now and no one gives a poo poo.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


lol Kathleen Stock has so quickly embraced the "cancelled" talking circuit that she's now part of a new "unwoke" university along with half of the entries in Epstein's little black book:

https://twitter.com/uaustinorg/status/1457665510699589636

Also apparently she was humiliated this morning by Lorraine Kelly.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


The inevitable has come to pass:

https://twitter.com/sex_peston/status/1457840814630047751

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Looks like Boris' address is going to be about COP, so probably not starting a trade war, today at least.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Novara are a business, they need clicks to survive, and clickbait titles do that. It’s a little eye-rolly, but it doesn’t really matter.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


With Chris-chan and now Lowtax it feels like there’s some kind of reckoning for old-school internet legends with incredibly questionable legacies.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Chris chan is dead??

Genuinely worse.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Wow, I wonder why John Ware didn’t release this incredibly damning information on Boris Johnson in 2019?

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/maxshanly/status/1460026495565549578

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


bessantj posted:

From each according to me, to each according to you.

People should click through to see the whole picture.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


stev posted:

That person in the red car seems very nonchalant about it then suddenly starts running. Like the car just entered his cone of vision.

Same energy:

https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1458884912598196226

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Remember when we had a better quality of bomb makers in this country? smdh

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


lol

https://twitter.com/benjamincohen/status/1460341503189041167

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


It is weird that nobody ever seems to talk about the possibility of rejoining the single market or something. All the remainiac ultras talk about is rejoining, which is never going to happen, at least for a decade+. Seems like it would be an obvious thing for Starmer to push for that doesn't upset any of the people he actually gives a poo poo about. Maybe the idea is that the Tories will end up having to plump for the single market in the end once the contradictions of the NI stuff become untenable. That seems pretty optimistic that the Tories won't just blow everything up and enjoy CON+30 for the privilege.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


He could pull the same bullshit angle as the Tories, claiming he could somehow get a deal to get in the single market and lose free movement, regardless of the reality.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/bincedmeef/status/1461269696469090306

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


stev posted:

Unsurprisingly most of the replies are people upset that he was even asked such a frivolous and unfair question in the first place.

Starmer's a coward, but the question was very clearly framed as "but you can't seriously be suggesting that Boris Johnson is a worse prime minister than inhuman monster Jeremy Corbyn would be, surely?!"

https://twitter.com/D_Raval/status/1461619770848120836

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


What is #remorsegate?

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Hey, remember when people kept insisting that Glenn Greenwald was still good?

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1461781981293854727

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


happyhippy posted:

I know, was checking out their newer ones after that one.

A few months ago I got nostalgic and decided to check out all the godawful webcomics I used to read daily back in the early 2000s, and see what had become of them. Obviously PA is still trundling on, but to my shock, literally every other one was too, the ones I could remember anyway. I guess they still have followings after all these years. By coincidence it happened to be Megatokyo’s 20th anniversary which probably made me feel older than anything else ever has.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Literally the only reason they won't do a mask mandate is because Tories won't follow it and will be photographed. As it is, they can at least attempt plausible deniability, as seen in that clip.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


forkboy84 posted:

That can't be it, because the rules are for the paups, not for Tories.

They know that but we don't, at least not sufficiently.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Yeah, Succession is amazing and everyone should be watching it. It’s borderline a UK product as well, it’s written by Jesse Armstrong who co-wrote Peep Show and The Thick Of It. And it is basically about how that extreme level of wealth annihilates your soul. I seem to remember that years ago someone here on SA who works with the super rich wrote a long post about it which came to similar conclusions.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


We got another one:

https://twitter.com/CouncillorPaul_/status/1463130394019209222

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


a pipe smoking dog posted:

According to this episode the UKMT is full of lib dems

Yeah, it was a bit disappointing that they basically had no knowledge of what the forum has been like since 2009 or whatever.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


a pipe smoking dog posted:

Yeah it definitely seemed like Nate's knowledge of SA was limited to GBS and pretty much entirely pre 2008

Maybe some of our PraxisCast pals can update them? You guys are all left celebs now, aren't you?

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


I probably feel more sorry for Trump than Boris. Trump is probably a worse person, but he’s also basically deranged. He’s deeply mentally ill or even possibly neurologically compromised. Also, he’s widely and absolutely loathed by a good half of the nation, including much of the establishment. He might never face actual hardship in his life, but he’ll likely be ostracised from the circles he dearly wishes he could be in. He’s probably incapable of actually experiencing happiness, and he’ll be dead soon.

Meanwhile, the most consequence Boris will face for his crimes will be not being able to be prime minister anymore. Maybe his party losing an election and falling out of power. The public will never truly turn on him, and a small blip at the moment aside, the establishment will always welcome him. He’ll be a bon vivant at garden parties and after-dinner speeches for the rest of his life. If he’s tossed out of Number 10 he’ll be back on whatever the new equivalent of Epstein’s island is by the end of the year. He’ll likely finish out his days, surrounded in his bed by (most of) his children, and maybe some of his mistresses, safe in the knowledge that he was a widely liked public figure, except by some weirdo crusties who don’t count.

That’s the real pain of watching the Tories. Almost no politicians will face actual material consequences for their actions. But they won’t even face emotional consequences. They will be happy and content for the rest of their likely natural lives.

Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Nov 23, 2021

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


therattle posted:

Yes. I also think that he’s deeply unhappy and always will be.


At least, I hope so.

Do you think he’s unhappy? At the moment, probably. He certainly didn’t want to be PM under these circumstances. But generally? He strikes me as a man completely content in his life. He’s never had to try for anything, everyone he meets like him, and for some reason he has an endless parade of plump young would-be mistresses available for him. You have never been as sure of anything in your life as Boris is that everything, most importantly himself, is doing great.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/councillorpaul_/status/1463619466529488911

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


fuctifino posted:

There's a successful tube strike going on at the moment
https://twitter.com/RMTunion/status/1464144702156988417

https://twitter.com/rahman_afzal/status/1463961645034704901

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Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012



"Only racists, please!"

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