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  Covid Won, Parties Forgotten About, Now To gently caress Something Else Up  Russian Nuclear Deterrent Now At Mango & Lime Due To Liz Truss  England Threatens Mildly Critical Newspaper Takes On Putin https://twitter.com/TabitaSurge/status/1498241805619507205 English Newspaper Takes On Putin Still Actually poo poo   In Other News• The UK records its fastest economic growth since 1941, with a 7.5% rise in GDP during 2021 following a collapse of 9.4% during 2020 • Ofgem raises caps as energy prices (unit and standing charge) set to rise precipitously in April • Cressida Dick stands down as Met commissioner after a no confidence by Sadiq Khan, • Jacob Rees-Mogg becomes Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency • The biggest fusion breakthrough since 1997 is reported by Oxford's JET, more than double the previous record • The FA announces that the England national football team will not win against Russia for the forseeable future • Ofcom launches 15 separate investigations into the Russian state news channel RT UK for its coverage of George Galloway's head by an obscene fedora • The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommends an additional Covid booster be offered to all over-75s and clinically extremely vulnerable in spring Ash Wednesday UKMT February 2022 - Khan pulls Dick, Patel miffed UKMT January 2022 - Whitby Cough Weekend All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) European Summer Time Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT World Civil Defence Day 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. Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" World Book Day Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. Hunter No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age - Jane McAlevey Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Café – Malatesta The Method of Freedom – Malatesta In Praise of Idleness – Russell Political Ideals – Russell Declaration – Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History – Domenico Losurdo God and the State – Bakunin The Conquest of Bread – Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg Violence – Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam Tooze Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom – Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left – Murray Bookchin A Brief History of Neoliberalism – David Harvey Let's Read Das Kapital – Karl Marx and Goons The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Or on Discord for other UKMT Chat and Podcast Conspiring https://discord.gg/QErneZT  Do Not Post In This Thread:
learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Apr 8, 2022 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/28/comparethemarket-meerkat-ads-tv-ukraine-russian-aleksandr-orlovquote:Comparethemarket pulls meerkat ads from TV news after Ukraine invasion
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Did they end up figuring out what Brexit was supposed to be? I've asked the question before but the answer still seems a bit unclear.
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endlessmonotony posted:Did they end up figuring out what Brexit was supposed to be? It's us. We were the brexit all along
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Mar 1, 2022 02:48
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It was a way for the Tories and their mates to make a few quid quickly. That's really it, everything that follows is just happenstance and keeping up appearances of doing something.
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Brexit means Brexit.
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It's p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day https://youtu.be/gj_aHCpZl4k And also my daughters birthday. These two things will align again in 2033 and 2044 and then not for a couple of hundred years because of Leap Years or something.
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It’s just dawned on me this morning that Johnson has probably gotten away with all the party stuff now. No one is talking about anything but Ukraine.
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sebzilla posted:It's p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day Not leap years, it's because Easter (and so Lent and Shrove Tuesday) is on a weird half lunar, half civil schedule because of arguments about how to date the death of Jesus.
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What a time to be alive. Now, given current affairs. It's VERY IMPORTANT we keep talking about my erection fuctifino posted:On the subject of the impending nuclear apocalypse, the Western media have translated the Russian word that should have been 'elevated' to 'high', so they are reporting that the nuclear forces are on high alert, while failing to mention that Putin has raised it from the lowest level to the second lowest level. There are still two levels to go.... Update: it was SHROVE... but in the last few hours we've passed into PANCAKE jiggerypokery fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Mar 1, 2022 |
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Red Oktober posted:It’s just dawned on me this morning that Johnson has probably gotten away with all the party stuff now. No one is talking about anything but Ukraine. Covid is cured, too! But yeah, it's a winning strategy: just grimly hang on until world events overtake things and everyone starts talking about something else.
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I don't believe it's march
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Gotta say, I kept a level head pretty much all the way through covid but our idiot press/politician soup going with "but what if nuclear war is good, actually?" has knocked me for six. What the gently caress is happening?
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Embarrassing scenes on the morning news today. Some idiot British reporter asking “but why are you doing this?” to people at the border offering refugees a lift in their car, and then wandering over to a group of women heading back into Ukraine to fetch their kids / family and saying (I wish I was kidding) “are you all off on a girl’s night out then?” I know they don’t exactly fill the morning slot with their best and brightest but come on.
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Are we not entertained?
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Mar 1, 2022 10:32
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I want more reporters on the Polish border reporting on how people are bring let through only if they have the right skin colour
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Mar 1, 2022 10:47
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Yeah, despite the greatest crisis of a generation the border guards still apparently have time to take part in their traditional pastimes https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1498322098242134018
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There is a lot of "this is europe which shouldn't have any war in it happening to white aryan christians unlike the middle east where war is just normal (it has nothing to do with us)" going on. https://twitter.com/non_philosophy/status/1498000420815396872
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It's also like...bro, Slavic Christians in Europe tried ethnically cleansing each other 2 decades ago.
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I have to say, the "WW2 as tragedy, WW3 as farce" argument does seem to be carrying more water than expected
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Steve Baker posted:Oliver Dowden, the Conservative party chair, recently delivered an interesting speech to the Heritage Foundation thinktank in Washington. An all-timer for worst opening sentence of an opinion piece.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I don't believe it's march
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https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1498604421898506245
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Kier Starmer: the unintentional Armond White of British politics
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Mar 1, 2022 12:42
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I welcome the refugees but they don't go far enough
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Mar 1, 2022 12:59
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Labour are definitely on the right side of this... https://twitter.com/TomWTheSecond/status/1498611751771852809?t=qpsqN6Yb9hU3YaXNtVA3vA&s=19 Oh.
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but imagine how bad it would have been if corbyn was leader! we'd have bins piled up to the moon!!
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Mar 1, 2022 13:09
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Corbyn would have given them all food and shelter DISGUSTING HE SHOULD RESIGN
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Awaken crispix, we need to know Mrs Egregore's opinion on this.
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it’s hilarious that this is one of the few times the right thing to do is also the popular thing to do and still Starmer can’t bring himself to do it
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Julio Cruz posted:it’s hilarious that this is one of the few times the right thing to do is also the popular thing to do and still Starmer can’t bring himself to do it Yeah but it’s what the Left want to do so the opposite MUST be done
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More proof that he's entirely leaning on the Wes Streeting/Piss Var wing for advice. "We can't do popular things, they must be wrong, therefore unpopular dithering is right" is their bread and butter or whatever horrific unpopular thing they eat. Balls of tinfoil or something.
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Its "we need to look tough on Putin and tough on immigration" but they don't want to look callous on the second half of that. So instead of explicitly coming down against welcoming Ukrainian refugees, they fall back on the phrase "we need a simplified process" when dealing with applications, which as far as I can tell means "we need a better website". Its also well within the liberal framework. They'll quite happily demand an escalation of violence against Russia but they sure as gently caress don't want a Ukrainian moving in next door.
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Look some pillock named Greg tried to live off of yellow sticker items and found it really hard. https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/1498636200458039298 Apparently man cannot live of yellow sticker items alone. But a couple in your weekly shop is alright. Yeah, cheers Greg.
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Nice of him to shave that pattern into his face to identify himself as a wanker at a distance.
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Greg looks like Simon Hedges with a beard Yellow sticker foods are the best and I'm upset he got to eat them
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Depends on the food, buying a pile of yellow sticker sushi packs and then eating them all is playing with fire.
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OwlFancier posted:Nice of him to shave that pattern into his face to identify himself as a wanker at a distance. idk he seemed attractive enough i think it's dumb to talk about 'shameful' meals, though, lots of people can only afford fancy foods when they're discounted like this. it's even dumber when he decided to "live like the poors do" by buying only expiring foods and not, y'know, adding some to a box of pasta or rice or canned peas or whatever
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wtf you totally can live off yellow sticker food, don't even have to go shopping that much, just bung it all in the freezer. It actually really irks me that it's so much cheaper to live off reduced ready meals than it is to cook fresh. I like cooking, it chills me out in the evening In other news, I was just in an emergency Union meeting full of over 100 loving moderates, one actual confessed union scab, and exactly 4 people with any appetite for escalation. One of whom was responsible for assembling the working group on what further action should be taken & guess which 3 other people are in it lmao
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