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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFgAllmI6LY It's that time of the year when we go through the rituals to prepare for the winter  and bring back the old traditions https://twitter.com/reviewwales/status/1459100215252865024 or try some new ones  or maybe not  just don't be like Tony https://twitter.com/adamndsmith/status/1464177573076869120 or these people https://twitter.com/mrnickharvey/status/1465285032956805124 or this dickhead https://twitter.com/john_x_henry/status/1465016903999578125 be more like this  In Other News  • OMICRON variant is detected in the UK, after first being sequenced in South Africa • Barbados declares itself free of Coburg-VI • An inflatable dinghy capsizes while attempting to reach the UK from France, resulting in 27 deaths and one missing, the deadliest incident of its kind on record • Owen Paterson steps down as an MP after 24 years in politics, calling the past two years "not my fault, actually your fault" • The UK becomes the first country in the world to approve molnupiravir, an oral Covid antiviral that halves the risk of hospitalisation or death • COP26 in Glasgow signs the death knell for coal power, eventually, sometime • Johnson's Irish Sea Bridge is scrapped as "stupid poo poo, just really stupid" and part of HS2 is scrapped too • Someone, possibly influenced by 'Cosmic Scouser' conspiracy theories, blows themselves up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital, injuring a taxi driver Tesseraction posted:I don't know if this has been posted but it's too glorious to risk it being missed: No Gender December UKMT November 2021 - Number 10 Says "arum arum aaaaaaaaag" UKMT October 2021 - It's the Great Sewage Pump, Clifton-Brown UKMT Sept Embers of War 2021/Galactic Br(it)ain UKMT Summer 2021: I didn't paddleboard while Kabul fell, the sea was closed UKMT May 2021 - Change the things that need changing and that is the change we will bring about UKMT April 2021 - UK Now Slightly Less Institutionally Racist UKMT March 2021 - Two Flags One Pole UKMT February 2021 - No deal is better than a Baddiel UKMT January 2021 - i have no chin and i must chitterwagger UKMT December 2020 - Best viewed with Brexcape Navigator 4+ UKMT Autumn 2020 - Thou shalt have a Rishi act a little fishi UKMT Summer 2020 - Two Pints of Saline and Abacavir for Drip UKMT May 2020 - Let them eat Nando's UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Brumalia Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT The Annual Global Orgasm for Peace Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. Mandatory Redistribution Party - Two northern comedians try to be educational about various socialist topics. Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The second-most UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. Alpha 2 Omega - Tom O'Brien talks political strategy. Requires Improvement - Podcast of lefty teachers exploring all things education, from a socialist perspective. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. 
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Spare a thought for the real victims of the season, mildly inconvenienced opinion columnists who likely spend all their time not going on about sacred liberties ranting about the human rights act and protestors.
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keep punching joe posted:My favourite marketing meme is 'create a disgusting version of a product that everyone hates but will also get the original product positive coverage'. 
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He's stepping down isn't he?
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fuctifino posted:Spotted in London last night *exclusively waves it above racist poo poo* Sanford posted:I’m 41 today 
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TACD posted:Really enjoying this image generation tool  
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Len McCluskey and Tom Watson trying to cross a picket line to see a screening of a documentary about The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and ending up having to see it elsewhere beats it for me, but it's very close.
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The field of children event got scrapped when it moved to Channel 4.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:My god what the gently caress is happening in this thread sebzilla posted:chaos with Ed Miliband 
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I think I broke it by putting 'Jon McNaughton' as the input. e: wait it just finished 
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:after the country reads this thread
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OwlFancier posted:One minor funny thing from this week was that on dec 1st asda started having the staff on the tannoy yelling at everyone to put on masks, while sainsburys apparently forgot to take off the "wearing masks is now a personal choice" announcement from the store radio rotation and so was blaring it all of yesterday lmao.
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Dabir posted:"Die." - a rhea
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Her biggest regret is that she didn't get the go ahead to desecrate that cemetery, scuppering her dream of being the big skull thing in an Islington version of Poltergeist.
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It'll alter some screws to become temporarily richer and some inmates to become permanently deader.
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They took down all the statues to the famous accomplishments of the Opium Wars and then forgot what happens in history when a decrepit empire blames foreigners and drugs as a cover for their own internal corruption problems. 
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Convex posted:Remember when Michael Gove wanted to get rid of prison books as well. It's all about the cruelty. 'Rehabilitation' is the public justification and nothing more. therattle posted:This is an even worse policy than depriving prisoners of books. Very similar in that they all start with "but I don't like..." and work backwards, but also because as in many of those cases the thing they don't actually like is other people and society. smellmycheese posted:Brexit metaphor of the day… That's a loving 6 pounder or something  
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I think Chomsky is right about the state, A Chomsky Boi posted:I met with a very lively anarchist movement in Buenos Aires, and with other anarchist groups as far away as northeastern Brazil, where nobody even knew they existed. We had a lot of discussions about these matters. They recognize that they have to try to use the state—even though they regard it as totally illegitimate. The reason is perfectly obvious: When you eliminate the one institutional structure in which people can participate to some extent—namely the government—you’re simply handing over power to unaccountable private tyrannies that are much worse. So you have to make use of the state, all the time recognizing that you ultimately want to eliminate it. State bad, alternative worse at present, but state definitely tries to protect itself from having to do any of the things that might make it less bad unless forced. Same often goes for other structures like unions once they get large enough.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I suppose of all the WW2 munitions to chose to stick up your arse he went for one of the safer ones - imagine if he'd got his hands on a sticky bomb or one of those spring-loaded mortars.
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There were also apparently a whole bunch of oil of vitriol/permanganate incendiaries being stashed about further north around the UK at the same time, at least by implication from one of the last remaining acid manufacturers in the area. It checks out, the combination would set off any low grade fuel you could stick in a bottle along with a test tube and an ampoule, from town gas tails to paper mill waste, but at least the long term effects aren't as worrying as coming across buried piles of white phosphorus and benzene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYMyogS3io
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Borrovan posted:C______ism cannot fail, it can only be failed  Cinchonism?  Cryptorchidism? 
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He's evolved into an adult human gonad.OwlFancier posted:the gently caress is "peaking" in this context? quote:Linehan said: “It is kind of TERFmas, it’s going to be good because it’s, like, just before Christmas. Narrator: It was not good.
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I kinda want to see those printouts, because I know they'll be the same level of bad as those "20 reasons why Disney is in the pocket of Big Homosexual" pamphlets that the religious fringe used to hand out.
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Before we pull the crackers, I've got a printout about genitals and gametes written by a disgraced sitcom writer that I'd like everyone to read.
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iirc it's mostly for the people doing the vaccines so they can see which ones you've had previously. The only time I've had to show it was for second and third shots, nobody anywhere else cares, and the NHS app has a proper record that actually is a record.
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another day inviting mps to peppa pig world. everyone keeps asking me if they can gently caress the pig. buddy, they wont even let me gently caress the pig
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quote:Meanwhile, drug misuse poisoning deaths are at a record high, having increased by nearly 80% since 2012.
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You've heard of Rock Against Racism, now it's time for Europop For Fascism  https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1466715342198251527
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ThomasPaine posted:I know there are good arguments against them but I do sometimes feel like ID cards were one of new labour's more reasonable authoritarian policies and I'm surprised they recieved as much pushback as they did especially as afaik it's pretty standard practice in many countries You'd think an ideology rooted in marketing execs meeting at trendy wine bars would actually know how to market something, even if they were useless at delivery, but the entire thing was negative messaging. "What can I do with my new ID card that I couldn't before?" "A copper can demand you produce it." is a message that will piss off liberals because of how police statey it sounds, conservatives because it's new and different and might inconvenience them personally, and leftists because it's trivial to see how it could become racist and weaponized against marginalized people. The system they did in Estonia is a good way of doing it, and actually sold itself so people wanted it. "What can I do with my new ID card that I couldn't before?" "You can securely sign for things at post, tax, and council offices. You can protect yourself against ID fraud. You can collect prescriptions. You can sign a legal document. You can log in to participating free wifi spots." literally anything positive would have been a big improvement. The whole thing seemed very tied in to the whole end of history rhetoric that the 'free market' is exciting and hip and innovative and the only thing that the public sector can do is grey concrete and cameras and bop you on the head with a truncheon if you don't show your papers.
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OwlFancier posted:Do you imagine that any UK government would have any interest in doing that, though? Any time since "government can't do good things, only bad things, vote for us and we'll prove it" probably not. happyhippy posted:That's the paradox, if it was cheap it would be easy to fake.
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fuctifino posted:We could actually be on a path to some comedy gold with this: Cocaine was discovered in 1855 by Friedrich Gaedcke. Boris Johnson uses cocaine in his office toilets. e: ^^^ Yeah, the piece of plastic would be about 50p, but looking at countries that have actually done it properly, a fiver would be a reasonable price to get from "hello i need an id card" to "here is your id card"
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What's going on with that door?
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Turn the sound off and it goes pretty well with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayVLYgjd9Rk https://twitter.com/IeKcdesign/status/1467596406269558786
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And that modern masculinity gives some men few avenues to communicate other than kicking each other through a busted up window. And that some modern UPVC doors are far more poo poo than what the fitters claim.
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crispix posted:think bigger, move till some country you like and just take over the country 
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Wasn't that why we all had to have the vaccine. Not this vaccine, the other one.
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fuctifino posted:when she wakes up sober tomorrow.
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stev posted:Yep. This was basically the only thing I was taught about party politics in my formative years. I think it was literally just 'both Hitler and Stalin were basically the same, look at this horseshoe'. This poo poo stuck with me though and I fully believed it until probably my early 20s. 
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I still think Nandy would have made a better leader than Starmer, but Michael Gove would have probably made a better labour leader than Starmer.
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