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Bobby Deluxe posted:One of the few good things to come out of tumblr was the phrase "Canon Jesus is better than fandom Jesus." I forget who wrote it, but there's a song or poem that sums it up: Jesus said to help the poor And love your fellow men If he came back to Earth today They'd nail him up again
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Julio Cruz posted:kinda weird tbh that multiple people have said recently that they find this thread can be really bad for their mental health with all the doomposting and yet we still have people coming in posting poo poo like "hope is a lie" Or you posting at all, Mr Avatar.
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Jan 1, 2022 17:48
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fuctifino posted:We're saved! Keith might take over! Check out the biggest problems facing the UK in 2022 as per Red Wall fuckwits. 33% name cost of living, 27% name the economy, 10% name Brexit. They aren't capable of drawing the slightest connection between actions and consequences.
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Jan 2, 2022 14:05
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fuctifino posted:Why are centrists so bad at the internet? Every loving time.... lol You're talking here about a group of people who have spent the last five years smugly congratulating themselves that when called to balance workers rights, socialised health care and international trade against absolute unfettered evil and corruption, they had the maturity to choose a path between.
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Jan 3, 2022 10:39
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NotJustANumber99 posted:How much electricity do all the computer games take? Oh look, the Tesla defender has also decided to defend crypto with whataboutism. What a loving shock.
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Jan 3, 2022 12:38
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OwlFancier posted:I think what is being described is a butter dish with a water seal, but I don't know where the "upside down" comes in. Perhaps it is some sort of butter isomer. If you think of a tub of butter as having a lid, "upside down" would be with the lid at the bottom.
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Jan 4, 2022 09:45
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keep punching joe posted:Actually checking the wiki article, and it actually looks like a good idea. I had a horrible mental image of it being all wet and gross like feta cheese. Feta is great. I do wish it wasn't quite so damp, though.
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Jan 4, 2022 11:52
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Just Another Lurker posted:Never read the books but have the box set and have marathoned all the movies several times. Ah, yes, the movies. Which feature a 35 year old woman in a bath with a 14 year old boy.
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Jan 5, 2022 13:59
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Failed Imagineer posted:
You get Amazon Prime Video free as part of a Prime membership, yes. If you watch Twitch you also get a free subscription to the streamer of your choice each month. The two combined are easily worth the money even if you never shop on Amazon.
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Jan 5, 2022 14:39
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WhatEvil posted:You can delete videos from your youtube watch history and then they won't affect your recommendations anymore: There's also an option to simply turn off YouTube history. It doesn't do anything, though; you'll still be recommended videos based on what you've seen before and channels you're subbed to, even if there's nothing in your history.
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Jan 5, 2022 19:26
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Gort posted:I had heard that the problem with the NHS wasn't literal beds and buildings, it was staff. Which is why the giant Nightingale they made out of the Excel Centre in London is back to doing conventions again - there were no staff to run it as a hospital, and the government has no interest in training or attracting more. They were never meant to be hospitals for treatment anyway. They were just places to send sick people to die after COVID-19 was allowed to rip through the population. Tory donors making profit from a death toll that would have exceeded that of the entire Second World War in a single year was just a coincidence, I'm sure.
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Jan 6, 2022 12:26
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Private Speech posted:
Show your working. I can to some degree sympathise with Djokovic not wanting to get the vaccine because of side effects. I'm recovering from a rotator cuff dysfunction in my shoulder; I got my booster in that arm and I lost all my progress. For someone who uses their shoulder for a living, that would be a big problem. But he doesn't want to avoid it for those reasons. He's just another antivaxxer dickhead and as such, he can suffer.
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Jan 6, 2022 14:22
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Guavanaut posted:"we set two brexit voters up on a date" Across the divide.
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Jan 6, 2022 16:07
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Paperhouse posted:Somehow I've never heard of this before, have you got a link to an article or something? Not doubting it, just interested. I didn't know that Djokovic was that mediocre in the past, my interest in tennis comes and goes and I just remember him bursting onto the scene and doing like you said, grinding everyone down That's because it never happened. He was a highly regarded junior player who reached the final of the Junior Davis Cup, was beating top 32 players in five set matches when he was 16, and improved constantly and steadily until he began winning Slams in 2008. In his late teens Tennis GB were courting him to switch nation so they wouldn't have to rely solely on Andy Murray. He's a twat who deserves contempt, but he's never been mediocre.
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Jan 6, 2022 20:34
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Rustybear posted:it's wild that the thread full of tennis cynics is resting on andy murray as being the one good guy; he was absolutely not on the level and his foreshortened career and hosed joints are a consequence of that. at the peak of his run the french press were more or less openely accusing him of doping At the peak of his career, when he was regularly beating all the best French players, the French accused him of doping? Well I never.
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Jan 7, 2022 11:58
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Mega Comrade posted:Doesn't John Lewis somewhat treat its staff like human being also? I remember when I was younger it was regarded as one of the better retail jobs to have. If you kept it. John Lewis closed a bunch of their stores during the pandemic. The Aberdeen store is currently in use as the vaccination centre.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:29
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I can't shop in Lidl. The Aisle of Wonder is too dangerous for me to be near, I can't keep going in for a dozen eggs and some fruit and coming out with an arc welder, a watercolour painting set, and a set of thermal underwear. Sounds like Costco, which I have in the past described as the only place you can get a chainsaw, a trampoline and a birthday cake under the same roof.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:47
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Private Speech posted:Yes they do, on average more than inflation in fact. My next job, that's a laugh.
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Jan 10, 2022 11:29
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Barry Foster posted:*extremely funny Borat voice* My wife More anti-Semitism from the left?
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Jan 10, 2022 14:38
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josh04 posted:They've been hitting him with this stick for how long, now? There's an argument that it didn't do anything the first 20 times, yes. But normally these things don't stick because the news cycle moves on. Here they're not allowing it to move on, and Boris being Boris they've always got a new example rather than rehashing the old one. It's not going to finish the Tories, but the Tories think it will finish Johnson. They want him gone now.
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Jan 10, 2022 19:18
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Unfortunately though the far-right projects were pandering to a voter base who had been coddled and courted by every party since 1979, and so react with frothing rage the moment things don't go exactly as they've been promised they'll go, and were supported by huge thermals of coverage from a press that broadly agreed with them. A new left-wing party has to engage an electorate deliberately ignored and beaten down for that time, who see no point in voting at all, and will face a degree of press hostility that will make what Corbyn, Abbott et. al. went through look tame. It's not even so good. Positing a left wing party splitting off from Labour as the equivalent of UKIP overlooks that UKIP's success in goals but not elections came about because the majority of Tories either wanted what they wanted or were happy to sway with the breeze. The majority of the PLP do not want left wing policies, nor are they willing to sway even for the chance of entering government. They are rank opportunists who joined Labour because the Tories wouldn't have them, and have been quite clear that they would rather serve in Hell than reign in Heaven. They cannot be pressured in the same way, and don't really even care about losing elections as long as they get onto the post-MP consultancy carousel.
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Jan 11, 2022 10:27
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Pistol_Pete posted:And as for Labour preferring to remaining staunchly Centrist rather than making any concessions to the left, yes, that's a possible outcome but not necessarily a bad one. Labour can't win without the broad support of the left, so forcing them into a situation where they either have to change or do a PASOK are both good outcomes imo. You're not understanding. The Labour right do not need to win to get what they want, because what they want is to get on the post-political gravy train.
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Rustybear posted:i mean prior to that it hasn't happened in 50 years so ymmv for boris really Thatcher won her VONC in 1991, although she chose to step down anyway as it wasn't overwhelming. In fact the only Tory leader to lose a VONC in the last 50 years was Ted Heath, who resigned after Thatcher narrowly beat him in the first round of voting. All the others resigned or stepped down of their own accord apart from IDS, who resigned rather than contest a vote.
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Barry Foster posted:Nah, we've been learning the same lessons from roughly the same time as Trummu got in (Brexit), it's just getting worse now Also we're learning that unwritten conventions are meaningless, while the US are learning that written conventions are meaningless when fascists stack the courts with judges who will ignore them.
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ThomasPaine posted:
Ruth Davidson didn't resign as leader of the Scottish Tories when May went into government with a group of fanatics who literally want to murder her wife.
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Failed Imagineer posted:My Normal surname has people asking a lot of email questions already answered by my surname Insert picture of Kevin Bacon here.
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Jan 13, 2022 10:00
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The Question IRL posted:The thing about including Atlantis in any of your ancient conspiracy theories is Atlantis first written mentioned is believed to be one of the dialogues of Plato. A man who regularly invented people to say the things he wanted them to say but wrote it as "this totally happened to me on Saturday night." It was the style. Hypotheticals weren't really allowed, you had to be writing about empirical facts or you were just a storyteller. Hence Herodotus adding his favourite tales to his histories with a disclaimer saying that he personally thought it was bunk. If he tried to tell the stories as stories then people would think the histories were just stories too.
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keep punching joe posted:By God that's Diogenes' music I hear! As if there's an honest man in wrestling.
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jiggerypokery posted:Still calling him the "Duke of York" though apparently. If you've ever played Crusader Kings, you'll know that you can change the royal succession and your kids will get pissed off, but revoke a duchy and you're looking at a war.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/BalancePowerUK/status/1481599795974258696 Worth noting that in both those polls, the Tory voters that Keith is busily courting aren't moving to him - they're staying home. Labour's tiny gains come from slightly less disillusioned people who are thinking that at least Starmer can't be worse than the Tories (they are wrong; Starmer is a Tory) and coming back now they sense blood in the water. If a snap election were to be called Labour couldn't possibly win it, but the Tories might lose it.
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Necrothatcher posted:On the death traditions thing I was quite thrown in Italy when I discovered that someone's expected to wait in vigil with the body before the funeral and had to basically spend five days sitting next to an open casket. Didn't you do that when Thatcher died, with a hammer and a stake?
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serious gaylord posted:She's gone full theranos Not really, she's at least getting some results from the blood samples.
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Jakabite posted:I like this poster. This poster should post more imo. that is my drunk posting review for the evening. tune in next week You're going to feel like a complete prat when Prole turns out to be someone's re-reg.
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Jakabite posted:This is great. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like Sue Gray is suddenly someone I should know about. As if Sue Gray is, and always has been, the arbiter of right and wrong and that, of course it's a matter for Sue Gray. Who's Sue Gray? What a crazy question, it's Sue Gray of course! Sue Gray bit and run.
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domhal posted:Finally Andy can win the AO. If he wins it aged 34 and from outside the top 128 it would be an incredible achievement.
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forkboy84 posted:
I would absolutely be stunned if that line was being used on the NHS in 10 years time, because it's happening right now. There won't be an NHS as we know it for it to happen to. There probably won't even be a nation to have it, for that matter. It was always the Tory plan to destroy it all for profit, but they're accelerating everything to protect the worst leader any country has had probably since Elagabalus and to protect themselves. They have a very good chance to establish permanent Tory hegemony by doing so, but if they fail none of them will ever have another chance like this to pillage the nation. Also I see Prole is sitting on a 6er for being a re-reg. I told you. He wasn't a poo poo poster here, but nobody comes fresh into a community and is that comfortable being assertive.
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forkboy84 posted:I think the line between brainwashing & propaganda is a lot thicker than you. Miles wide. I also think that in the scheme of the BBC's sins, Eastenders being anti-cannabis or whatever the gently caress you're mad about is pretty loving low down. Here's the distinction that needs to be made. The BBC as is always reflects bias towards the government, whoever that government may be. If it is replaced by the Tories, its replacement will always reflect bias towards the Tories regardless of who is in power - unless the Tories somehow offend the owner, by, for instance, not doing everything he wants. It would be like replacing a state run newspaper with the Daily Mail.
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IllusionistTrixie posted:This implies that we won't have a thousand year That is the purpose of getting rid of the BBC, yes. Got a PM from Prole, claiming their real identity - although of course that cannot be proven. I will not pass it on, nor would I even if they hadn't asked me not to, but I can tell you that they are definitely not Pissflaps. Hopefully they are on the level and will be back soon.
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OwlFancier posted:I think a better explanation is that if you want a "big tent" party at the moment you just join labour, and then the lovely people in charge of it use you to get their lovely mates elected and do nothing to help you while a bunch of other people tell you that you have to stay in because there cannot ever be anything better. That doesn't make the plan to replace it with a new big tent party any better. That new big tent will be just as susceptible to soft-right entryism of the kind that has been killing Labour for the last 30 years. Szmitten posted:I think it's more a matter of either starting small but pure and getting stomped out immediately and forever, or infiltrating the existing tainted big one and twisting it leftwards by making your presence indispensable. Are you not paying attention for the last five or six years? The left cannot make themselves indispensable to the Labour right, because the right would rather be destroyed than win with the help of the left. Jedit fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jan 17, 2022 |
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radmonger posted:Labour is bankrupt, swiftly losing members, and led by charisma-free obvious idiots. Ones who will always be returning fewer MPs to parliament, and so supporting a smaller of career staff posts, than any alternative. This would seem to me to make changing course absolutely politics on easy mode, something that will naturally happen unless some unpredictable event prevents it. I think I just made it, but when your goal is to extinguish the left in politics then it doesn't matter to you whether you paint the red car blue or crash it into a tree. Labour can in theory be saved by the vote staying home everywhere outside constituencies with proper left wing candidates, but that has two problems. First, if the Labour electorate could identify right wing candidates instead of just ticking the box by the red rose then we wouldn't have this problem to begin with. Second, it would collapse Labour to the point where they wouldn't even be the Opposition any more, and we're left with either the Tories and Lib Dems struggling over who can be the biggest oval office or just simply a permanent Tory government with a 200 majority enacting full fascism.
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