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Pistol_Pete posted:The dnd thread is awful, you honestly get more level headed and informative posting in the Cspam equivalent. Unless your version of level headedness is supporting Russia, I’m not so sure
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There’s a difference between taking up arms to defend the idea of a country in the abstract, and taking up arms to defend your real home and country that’s full of your friends and family and community and would suffer massively in the event of being successfully invaded by a powerful neighbour. I don’t agree with conscription but quite a few Ukrainians I know have stayed behind to fight willingly, and I don’t see why they shouldn’t be given the tools to do so if that’s what they want to do. I admire their bravery.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Trees grow in the UK, we could just use them for solar power and burn them What you want to chop down trees? How’s that renewable? You can grow concrete
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OwlFancier posted:I assume the same reason everyone started spelling it kyiv, because that's probably closer to the correct pronunciation and suddenly everyone is very keen to be performatively supportive about things they didn't give a poo poo about last month. I feel that there are good reasons why people previously uninterested in Ukraine may now be very interested indeed
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Mar 8, 2022 18:41
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Every country in the world is full of massive amounts of different types of people. The money, be it Russian or otherwise, decides which of them get heard and promoted, and indeed which aspects of people’s views are amplified. The fact that Russia played a large part in this is something that deserves to be reported, and it being reported on is a good thing. In the end, we’re all talking out of our arses and doing a lot of reckoning.
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Mar 14, 2022 11:52
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Borrovan posted:In my opinion the fact that lots of people & groups interfere with our lovely democracy is not a valid reason not to pay attention when Russia does it This. It isn’t ‘Russia brained’ to think it’s worth pointing out that Russian elites have, to some degree or other, negatively influenced politics in the UK. I also don’t think it’s the world’s greatest crime for the journalist who has ploughed probably thousands of hours into this topic to focus inordinately on it. That’s just like… normal. Also find it kind of funny to hark back to the days of Harold Wilson to make a point about this. The world is actually quite different now. E: ^^^ so Cadwalladr should either report on all sources of political manipulation in the UK equally, or none at all?
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forkboy84 posted:Yes, that's it, you're very smart. So… the first part of your post is unironic or what? Because you are literally saying that the argument that you shouldn’t ignore everything someone says just because they have a particular focus is wrong, meaning by process of elimination that you either have equal focus on everything, or don’t do anything at all. Like the answer to that last bit is just so obviously ‘no, of course not’ but you seem to disagree? Genuinely baffled at this E: also Jeherrin you should post more that was a good post
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Gonzo McFee posted:Russian disinformation's effect on public life is negligible at best. Source?
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Isomermaid posted:Assuming a scenario where people were sufficiently mobilised to get rid of russian financial interference in politics as "step 1", if Cadwalladr et al didn't support going further then who cares what they think, frankly. The problem is systemic and the right solution will involve changing the system rather than singling out one bad actor (Russian oligarchy). Leaving a power vacuum for british/american/whoever toffs to sweep back in after and do the same thing is absolutely a problem that would need tackling alongside what she's talking about and she may or may not be up for that. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do the thing with regards to Russian money now while there's support we could capture to build an argument for going further off the back of. Exactly this. The left are great at totally failing to seize a very loving obvious moment. Jakabite fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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WhatEvil posted:I think stuff gets read in this thread a lot for being something it's not. I think it's hard to take anything else from the initial points made by some. Characterising the journalist responsible for a lot of this digging as a liberal Russia-brained hack doesn't say to me that the person doing that cares about Russian influence, but also wants more people taking a closer look at other billionaires and world powers. There's nothing wrong with having a specific focus to what you choose to investigate. Edit: ^^ would it be too cheeky to link one of Cadwalladr's articles on this?
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Comrade Fakename posted:Not all of them: Absolutely true, legends
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E: never mind, was being an arse and there wasn’t any need
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Gonzo McFee posted:Never saw it but never apologise for being rude online, it's what it's for. Never be kind online. I’ll apologise for what I want, you loving oval office!!! 
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Lungboy posted:Norman? paging crispix
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Norman they’ve chopped off your tail! DO SOMETHING NORMAN
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There’s definitely a vibe amongst certain sections of the left (tankies, C-SPAM, SWP dickheads) to make hatred of the west, and blaming the west for everything, a core part of their political identity. I know this because I eagerly await them coming out the woodwork to defend the persecution of Uyghers or the invasion of Ukraine (sorry, not defend, assign major blame to the west for) and like clockwork they’re there. There are arsehole imperialists all over the world, it’s not all us.
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Mega Comrade posted:gently caress off. herpes confirmed
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I’d guess as someone who’s building his own house, 99 probably has more than one car. Observation, not disparagement.
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Mar 23, 2022 16:47
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It's not about changing radical bigots' minds, it's about destroying them to the point that others who might think about engaging in vocal bigotry think twice.
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Trying to get an emergency sertraline prescription because I forgot to order in time really hammers home how loving shagged out the health service is. Absolutely im-loving-possible.
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Wolfsbane posted:I feel really lucky to have a button on my phone that orders me more brain pills, because no way would I be organised enough to talk to actual human beings about it. Jesus how do I get this to be a thing. I'm getting dangerously close to 'threaten suicide', which does usually seem to expedite things but I don't love to do for obvious reasons.
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OwlFancier posted:You get that with boro too, normally "in town" means boro center where all the shopping centers are (three, no less) but you go to one of the satellite towns south of it and "town" means "the big road with some shops on, possibly the lidl if you are so bold" I think you’ll find Redcar is quite a lot more than a big road with some shops on, mister 
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OwlFancier posted:If youse haven't watched the caelan conrad videos I would again recommend them because apparently the terfs are all reading books that basically say that when your kid is being trans that is an alternate personality put there by a cult and they aren't really your kid. Does it stop there? I thought it usually just breezed past these days. I love that alarm too, every Tuesday it used to go off when I lived there anyway and it was great for pretending the End Times Were Coming (sooner than they actually are). Even better when it's a real alarm, and the flare stacks they burn off dangerous poo poo with are lighting up the sky a fierce, flickering orange. It's a bit of a shithole but I'm not sure I'd have had anywhere else as my starting zone to be honest.
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The actual flares themselves are MASSIVE too, if you’re close enough to see the flame itself. They really look like they’re half or more the height of the stacks themselves. You might have posted them so sorry if I missed them, but did you ever take photos of the Dorman Long tower before the loving BASTARDS knocked it down?
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Yeah I assumed it would have been a bit of a gently caress about to get somewhere for a decent picture. There are quite a few photos of it at least!
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Mar 24, 2022 22:24
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My favourite Blade Runner story is the bit with the big columns, and they’d been doing weeks of night shoots in loving grim weather in Teesside and all the cast and crew were loving sick of it. Then Scott decided he preferred the columns the other way up and made them do it all again.
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Mar 25, 2022 17:47
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OwlFancier posted:Level crossings are a loving pain in the arse though. One of the worst things about redcar is that the rail line runs at grade through half the town, and even with its relatively light use it backs the traffic up a lot. I can’t help but feel that making the Morrisons car park a throughway would result in a million percentage increase in old biddies being flung about by modded Corsas
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Mar 25, 2022 18:02
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You’ve got that little street GAME (is, was?) on as the runway too. Think we’re onto something here.
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Mar 25, 2022 18:25
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OwlFancier posted:I remember seeing one of those at longbeck, similar situation in that it's literally off someone's back garden, near the aptly named cat flatt lane. So if every you felt like speedrunning getting out of bed to getting hit by a train that's definitely a competitor. Every other crossing is either over or under but there is one that's just "eh, just avoid the train" gently caress me, that’s my nan’s street. I used to walk over that and up the path to smoke spliffs when I was staying with her
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Mar 25, 2022 18:57
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goddamnedtwisto posted:You can pick a not-tupperware container exactly like this in every pound shop in the country. Can the wheel reward you with LSD, or is it just unpleasant illnesses?
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Mar 28, 2022 15:27
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I think it’s pretty funny to go up on stage on national tv and slap Chris Rock for taking the piss out of your wife’s medical condition, and if anyone did that for me I’d think that was quite nice of them. Not that they thought they owned me. People sometimes slap or otherwise do minor acts of violence against each other. It’s a lot healthier than a 90 tweet screed or whatever’s sadly replacing the humble smack.
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Mar 29, 2022 09:09
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It used to be a weird anomaly, but now that weird anomalies are the norm it just seems normal and not interesting. Honestly a bunch of celebrities being involved in some nice group to do something nice and normal would be more shocking at this point.
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I always thought ukmt was cool normal people and cspam was way too online weirdo internet tankies
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OwlFancier posted:First time anybody has ever suggested I was normal. Normal *by the standards of dead gay comedy forum Something Awful dot com*
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Dabir posted:Nonsense. It would be sheer ignorance to deny that the Chrono Cross soundtrack is anything but the magnum opus of vidcon music; its lifting and oftentimes hauntingly peaceful guitar melodies soothe all but the most savage of beasts while its tense battle themes and mysterious donjon tunes ignite a blazing passion that can be quenched only by the vidcon's profound story and gameplay. It is a wonder that anyone can listen to anything besides vidcon musical compositions after listening to Mitsuda-san's immensely powerful soundtrack, but given that the primitive thuds of hip hop are America's current choice of 'music' (I use the term music liberally), one can see little hope in the mass appreciation of Mitsuda-san's work. Mods???????
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Anyone who does one of those ‘breathy singer, twinkly piano, possibly a loving acoustic guitar if you’re really unfortunate’ covers should, and I’m not being hyperbolic here, be killed. E: shite, shiter, bit shite but just for being soft as gently caress, they’re not bad really.
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It honestly makes me kind of angry. I can’t put my finger on why, I’m just imagining the entire process and everyone involved in it either genuinely believing or pretending to themselves and those around them that these covers are actually really touching or affecting, and congratulating themselves for a job well done. Like at least the people who earn millions killing whales or fracking, there’s a logical route to how that’s happened. It’s evil as gently caress but it makes sense. Those covers are like an aberration, a cruel joke played on us people who are allergic to twee bullshit by a bunch of suited dick head wankers. gently caress
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Comrade Fakename posted:https://twitter.com/EastEndersPress/status/1510954345487122441 Man this has actually upset me a bit, she seemed lovely 
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I just want to live in a world where looking up hot Asian babes is not looked down upon
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Guavanaut posted:*googles "Asian girls first time seeing huge white cock"* That's a real odd picture, the crack in the wall running into the woman's straight posture makes it look like it's two pictures
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