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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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peanut- posted:Replies to this are wild. So we should just do nothing?? Putin must be laughing in his bunker right now, you TRAITOR.* *I've summarised the replies, so nobody else has to put themselves through reading them.
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keep punching joe posted:I know nothing about Russian internal politics, but is there a possibility that harsh economic sanctions could spark internal conflict. Like the Balkans war(s), except this time bigger and with the power of the atom harnessed. Naah. Sanctions never work - they impoverish ordinary people in the countries that they're targeted at but do little or nothing to destabilize regimes or encourage internal rebellion. Places like North Korea and Iran have been sanctioned for decades to no discernable effect; conversely, I can't think of a single situation where sanctions actually achieved their aim of changing a country's behaviour. Basically, if you're too stubborn to negotiate but don't fancy actually starting a war, sanctions are the perfect middle option, the 'being seen to be doing something' of international relations. (Naturally, our declining neoliberal western regimes loving love them.)
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Mar 2, 2022 13:38
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I mean, if you look at the language of the actual people imposing the sanctions, it's all about "being tough" and "sending a clear message" etc, which comes back to my point that sanctions are mostly gesture politics used when you don't want to either talk to or fight with an opponent.
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ThomasPaine posted:I haven't looked at the war thread, is it as ridiculous as I imagine it is? The dnd thread is awful, you honestly get more level headed and informative posting in the Cspam equivalent.
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They're a grumpy bunch in that thread, yeah.
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Biggus Dickus posted:Those American candy stores are in Private Eye this week: I was in the Cardiff store last week! I thought it was an odd setup: the store's in a prime location directly opposite Cardiff Castle but was almost empty and the stuff on sale was hugely overpriced - a medium sized bag of chocolate coated pretzels was £11 ffs. Couldn't believe there'd be enough tourists who'd pay those sort of prices.
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Also, the dnd war thread has probed Ronya, another casualty of this meaningless conflict 
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I also have a accent.
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Mar 4, 2022 11:50
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That's not a plan: it's almost Starmerite in its substitution of banal aspirations over any sort of concrete proposals.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
Yeah, it's not like the current leadership has a record of doing bafflingly stupid poo poo, so I'm sure they have absolutely nothing to worry about 
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War reporting in the UK press continues to be amazingly bad. Just looking at the Guardian: most of the site's front page is nothing but Ukraine news and yet there's not a single article that just sets out a basic overview of the state of the war, where the key fronts are and whether the Russians are advancing, retreating, or mostly static. It's all isolated, disjointed stuff like "Shell hits apartment building" and "News reporter killed by shrapnel". If you want to know how the war is actually developing, you have to look elsewhere.
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keep punching joe posted:Just have Al Jazeera on in the background. Al Jazeera's actually heaps better, good call.
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Mar 16, 2022 11:59
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Guys, I just can't follow this Russia/ Ukraine argument. Could you reframe it as a Star Wars or Harry Potter analogy?
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Two of my team of four people have picked it up over the weekend!
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Crankit posted:I've got a week off work coming up real soon and I'm stupid so I have no idea what I'm gonna do with myself, I can get free transport to brighton and london, can anyone recommend some kinda tourist days out that are pretty cheap? Thanks! The big national museums are all free, though I think they are still doing the Covid check-in thing! The British Museum could be a day out just by itself.
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People often forget Churchill was heavily involved in WW1 as well... his record in that war was distinctly mixed.
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It does look like the next election is shaping up to be one where culture war issues are pushed hard to distract from the state of the economy etc. You'd think that Labour would get round to having some effective answers to these sorts of questions at some point but as long as their response is a hunted expression and awkward prevarication, interviewers are going to keep gleefully asking them.
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Mebh posted:Christ watching that sack of steamed ham attempt to middle management his way out of saying anything constructive or helpful in case he offends a potential voter is just so... so... gently caress I don't even know. It's all just so hopeless sometimes. We're right back in that post-2010 situation where there's a Tory government that nobody likes that much but a Labour opposition that exists for the purpose of standing for absolutely nothing and... Yep, it's pretty hopeless. I don't know what my point is.
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Apr 1, 2022 16:51
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keep punching joe posted:I see Jeremy Crombyn has worked the Liberals up into an apoplectic rage this morning simply by posting an utterly innocuous comment. Lol, I'd just come across this on Twitter. David Gauke was all : "HOW DARE YOU CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE WE NEED MORE BLOOD"
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This thread is loads slower since the Ukraine war started. Why is that, is everyone watching the news about that instead?
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Apr 6, 2022 17:07
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Funny seeing Sunak doing the hero-to-zero cycle in the media, when he's been the exact same person throughout. It's Theresa May all over again lol.
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Never understood why someone as rich as him is bothering to work at all. Some ego thing due to feeling a bit inferior at being rich but not as rich as the billionaire family he's married into?
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Apr 9, 2022 21:50
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Yeah, everyone stopped voting for Scottish Labour 'cos they were a garbage party that stood for absolutely nothing. Funny thing is, they still seem to think that the voters will eventually drift back to them, without them having to change or do anything, it's weird.
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crispix posted:it's not even just the absence of policies that's astonishing, the thing that really short-circuits my brain is the way those people in labour all talk with the same bizarrely stilted speech and overuse the same soundbites in the way of politicians 20-30 years ago *Homer Simpson voice* "Sure, it's not 1997 now, but who knows what the future will bring?"
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Apr 10, 2022 16:16
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Yeah,if you're passionate, sincere and persistent , you absolutely can change people's received opinions about stuff. It's one of the things that Labour have completely abandoned though, as it requires courage and moral integrity.
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Apr 16, 2022 08:35
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Feeling a real buzz right now, guys.
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Apr 20, 2022 10:29
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Thread's bickering about Covid precautions like it's 2020. Just stress about Ukraine or something, like everyone else is!
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Apr 22, 2022 22:18
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I fund the Bristol Cable and the Byline Times because they're at least trying to promote independent journalism 
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Apr 23, 2022 18:12
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Strom Cuzewon posted:My swashbuckling recommendation is The Long Ships - jolly viking adventures, that masks a more serious look at medieval religion, politics, and the christianisation of Norway. It also has vikings competing over poetry, and getting all pissy when someone busts out a great poem completely off the cuff because now it means they have to come up with a better one right away. The Long Ships owns and is tremendously good fun to read.
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bump_fn posted:gently caress it’s so nice out Yep, just having a beer in the sun right now, Bristol's back in it's normal sunny Saturday mode, where the whole city centre is like a chilled, low-level music festival 
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OwlFancier posted:They are absolutely ramming the bus stations round here with his horrible mug, so it's not for lack of trying. It's going to be just like CNN+ in the USA, which crashed and burned within weeks of launch: nobody's going to pay to listen to dumb, lovely opinions while there's so many places giving them away for free already.
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May 5, 2022 05:00
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What's some good reading for a basic overview of Marxism and how it can be applied to our contemporary society? It's struck me that while I instinctively support the left, I'd struggle to put forward a coherent framework as to why I do, if asked.
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May 5, 2022 08:58
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Absolutely the perfect end to that idiot's career is if the one single issue he manages to take a stand on is covid parties, and all the righteous anger he's managed to stoke in the population is instantly reflected back in his face. Wonder if that's why he's been looking even more uncomfortable than usual in recent interviews: he knows that there's even more stuff that hasn't come out yet and he keeps expecting to get ambushed with it.
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May 6, 2022 13:21
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On the current trajectory the Unionists in NI are in inexorable decline: the Unionist population is on average older than the Nationalists and has fewer children: they're shrinking year by year as a proportion of the total population. They also have no political leverage at Westminister and no coherent alternative to the Nationalist plan for a United Ireland. To regain momentum, they'd need some kind of fundamental change, and their whole thing is resistance to change, so....
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May 7, 2022 12:46
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Crazy seeing how quickly Starmer goes to pieces and starts making stupid decisions the moment he's actually put under pressure.
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Can't help but feel that there's an element of self-sabotage here: he's subconsciously hating being leader and if the Durham police fine him then it's kind of their decision rather than his decision that he goes. I mean, I've been monitoring his recent TV appearances, and if he's enjoying being Labour leader at all, then he's extremely good at hiding it.
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May 9, 2022 15:34
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The New Statesman has an actual good article! It's by the guy who just wrote that book about Starmer, gonna quote it in full, so you don't have to look at the rest of the site:Oliver Eagleton posted:
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My favourite bit of the article is where he points out that Starmer's positioning of himself as the solid defender of rules and order relies on the media being fair and not just making poo poo up about him in order for it to work.
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You should be allowed pets measured by a maximum weight of, say, 50 kilos of pet per household. So in any one property, you could potentially have 1 large dog, 10 medium-sized cats, or 25,000 cockroaches.
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