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Senior Economist journalist Helen Joyce going full mask off here. Caution, this clip is genuinely disturbing. https://twitter.com/joss_prior/status/1532431478461804544?s=21&t=kfB0S6r6YYCwBRClI0WF-A
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Angepain posted:yes he killed a king we already know this Also a fuckload of Irish people, which raises some awkward questions.
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Jun 4, 2022 15:25
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Guavanaut posted:It worked out much better after WW2 when we humiliated the ideology instead, removed it's symbols, destroyed it's altars. Problem is that Russia has one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. There is an extremely hard upper limit on what anyone can do to the country and its government. This is doubly unfortunate because the whole incident creates a cast-iron case for global nuclear proliferation as the only truly trustworthy defence against imperialism.
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Jun 5, 2022 11:54
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Tesseraction posted:Reminds me of my mentor at my last job when I asked if he was voting Labour in 2015 (I was wavering between Greens and Labour because I'm a swing constituency) and he said he's not voting Labour because "they've got loving Ed Balls as chancellor" I'm not sure this applies because Starmer's actual chancellor is, if anything, worse than Streeting. Rachel Reeves should be one of the strongest arguments against letting Labour anywhere near power.
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Jun 8, 2022 13:48
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Jun 9, 2022 12:10
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Jesus Christ. https://twitter.com/paperwhispers/status/1534529948790280192?s=21&t=tmC0TPlS1-3859_wxp3WSw For context, the Wellcome Trust is the UK's main scientific research charity, and the fourth-richest charity in the world (its current net worth is just below thirty billion). It typically spends a billion pounds on scientific grants and other charitable activities per year.
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Jun 9, 2022 12:52
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Guavanaut posted:Disaggregating figures for Black researchers given funding would reveal that his name is Paul and he went to school with one of the directors. Incidentally, I did some rough maths based on the percentage of the UK population that's black and the median pricetag for a research grant. In a world of perfect racial equality, the Wellcome Trust would be giving out an average of 90-100 grants to black scientists per financial year. That seems a fair distance above the threshold required for anonymity, no?
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Jun 9, 2022 14:33
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David has been miring himself in spectacular levels of dictator-adjacent corruption just like his hero Tony. Ed is a minor member of the current shadow cabinet who's trying to put a positive spin on the fact that everyone around him holds him in contempt and nobody listens to him.
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Jun 10, 2022 18:15
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Guavanaut posted:It'll be a grift but one that goes from lottery fund to their personal accounts via the medium of hateful poo poo promotional packages sent to schools. IIRC, there's heated debate within the LGB Alliance over whether it is, in fact, OK to be gay. https://twitter.com/aidanctweets/status/1482321758808309761?s=21&t=F--CnKFttSyR71qDbeRXzQ
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Jun 10, 2022 20:20
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https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1535574974496395264?s=21&t=fgf_rVyhGqw_Zf19pfCRVg The Beatles surely couldn't have known that they were writing 'Nowhere Man' about someone who was then two years old.
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Jun 11, 2022 14:55
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NotJustANumber99 posted:They're buried in one grave? Saved them from figuring out which twin should get which headstone, I guess.
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Jun 12, 2022 00:20
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As someone on Twitter pointed out, carrying out a conversation is a function that does not necessarily require an actual, conscious intellect behind it. Your vacuum may be good at sucking up dirt, but that does not in and of itself mean that it derives joy from it.
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Jun 12, 2022 19:19
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I think it's safe to assume that the Scottish independence movement will undergo a gradual shift towards becoming more radical and militant in the coming decades, though, if only because they want to go and Westminster isn't going to say yes unless they force them. A rogue referendum may not accomplish anything, per se, but it and the corresponding Westminster backlash feel like inevitable and necessary parts of that process as the independence movement builds support and legitimacy for more radical action.
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Jun 14, 2022 15:08
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Failed Imagineer posted:I see the EU is back to suing the UK now. Wonder what will happen when the EU makes a summary judgment and the UK says "no, to the contrary" and continues setting constituent parts of itself on fire. Sanctions, quite possibly.
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Jun 15, 2022 10:01
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Failed Imagineer posted:One would like to think, but we'll see. Greece?
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Jun 15, 2022 10:12
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Ash Crimson posted:They are not actually marines Well, they are, but they're a lot of other things as well. Ship-to-ship boarding actions in space battles are indeed what they're most perfectly designed for.
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Jun 17, 2022 02:34
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crispix posted:lool if boris's ukraine trips become too predictable and he gets captured by lukashenko's henchmen Why would they want him any more than anyone else does?
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Jun 17, 2022 21:28
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OwlFancier posted:Are there really three avon rivers lmao It's derived from the Welsh word 'afon', which means 'river'. So yeah, you'd expect several to have that name.
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Jun 18, 2022 11:50
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Meanwhile, the slow-motion collision between COVID-19 and our hideously creaky welfare system continues: https://twitter.com/dailymirror/status/1539164599286747136?s=21&t=DKrL4yqv8XKtI-lmWfODNQ The repercussions from this will be huge.
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Jun 23, 2022 01:58
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Brendan Rodgers posted:The US military had no real objective beyond protecting poppy fields. If you are fighting over actual objectives, then your guerillas will not take them in open battle. Guerrillas don't do open battle, by definition. They simply make a state ungovernable until state power starts eroding and defecting. It's been highly successful around the world in modern times against militaries just as advanced as America's, and the USA has excellent geography for it if the population does choose to remove its consent. Yes, it will be insanely gruesome, but that doesn't in and of itself mean that a total victory for the state is preordained. At the very least, I reckon you'd see some quite successful regional secessionist movements, even if the places that end up seceding are wildly unpredictable.
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Jun 24, 2022 18:20
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radmonger posted:Making the state ungovernable _is_ the ideology of the US right. If there is a potential road to political victory that leads through bombing health clinics and schools, it is not the left that is positioned to take it. It's the ideological means, not the ideological end. It's a useful toolkit for minoritarians who want to carve out influence away from the majority (or for corporatists seeking to impose less democratic and more oligarchic power structures), but it's less useful if you have grander ambitions for the overall control of the country (say, in order to quash nationwide insurrections), and the Republicans in those circumstances would choose to discard it just as they always do whenever military matters become relevant. Equally, it would then become a useful tool for any prospective insurrectionists against the federal government, regardless of ideology.
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Jun 24, 2022 20:23
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It is a bit annoying that it's generally only the Catholic space fascists who get the 'yes, this is an awful faction run by awful people, but here's a nice, relatable protagonist stuck inside the system for you to cheer on' treatment. Give us some Chaos-worshipping freedom fighters battling against 'the cruellest, most bloody regime imaginable', people.
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Jun 28, 2022 10:28
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OwlFancier posted:That's a bit hard when one of the chaos gods is literally the blood god. If the other guys are the bloodiest regime possible then that's aspirational. The Imperium is very much set up as a decaying, mundane mirror to the forces of Chaos - terrible repression versus terrible freedom. The parallels between servitors and Chaos Spawn are a particularly obvious example. If Chaos-worshippers can reach greater depths than worshippers of the Cult Imperialis, then they should equally be able to reach greater heights. This also fits with Nemesis the Warlock, one of the early inspirations/sibling works for 40K, where the protagonist is an alien chaos sorcerer inspiring a rebellion against a racist, tyrannical human empire. He's himself a bit of a selfish, callous jerk, but he's also absolutely a force for good and a creator of genuine heroes.
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Tarnop posted:I assume the papers are sitting on their lockdown booze pictures of Nandy, Streeting and any other empty suit that might get pushed I feel like there are considerably more depraved stories about Streeting that the press could be sitting on. Maybe the 'burning down a pet shop' thing actually has legs beyond vague Twitter rumours?
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Jun 30, 2022 16:06
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forkboy84 posted:Scotland wins again. We're going to get default independence because England melted Joke's on you, you're going to come out of this with England permanently welded to your underside.
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The Question IRL posted:So if you read comics enough you very often hear about this weird philosophical debate amoung fans (and it sometimes shows up in the stories themselves.) Which Green Goblin? Because the one in the comics is genuinely probably worse than the Joker - he's got a Jekyll-and-Hyde thing going on, except that the two settings are 'stable psychopath' and 'unstable psychopath', and he's arguably a greater spreader of misery when he's a corporate apex predator than when he's jumping on a glider and throwing explosive pumpkins at people. Dude's one of the biggest arguments in Marvel for the virtue of political assassination.
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Jedit posted:So where do we think Badenoch's supporters will fall? Truss or Mordaunt? Truss has been placing herself as the far-right unity candidate. Apparently, she, Braverman, and Badenoch were in talks about merging their campaigns, so there's a chance Braverman will now endorse her.
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The Question IRL posted:The Tory membership are that meme of the guy with two buttons in front of him only the buttons say Eh, after May and Thatcher, being a white woman isn't too insurmountable as an obstacle in a Tory leadership race.
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Jul 14, 2022 15:27
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Paperhouse posted:Labour at least has some MPs that are good. No Tories are good. A Labour govt would theoretically have a slightly harder time passing heinous poo poo through parliament Not if it just makes those bills bipartisan. Starmer's Labour would be far more likely to court the votes of Tory MPs than those of the few actually principled members of the SCG. In some ways, you'd be increasing the likelihood of regressive legislation being passed by giving Labour full license to whip for it.
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Looke posted:in this case we should just never vote labour then and allow the tories to rule indefinitely? The point is that Labour in its present state isn't an alternative to the Tories, but an extension of them. Yes, it is possible and reasonable to extrapolate from this that Westminster as a whole is more an obstacle than an asset to an effectively, humanely-run country, and that we should seek to build the power of structures outside it in order to bypass it as much as is possible. Unions have been doing a pretty good job of proving their worth lately, for instance.
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Looke posted:I'm not sure political theory is that comforting to the general public who are being rinsed of all the salary and savings, and having to decide who gets to eat tonight. But I guess as Labour are a dead cause then we may as well stick with the devil we know If you're poor and destitute, I think it is quite useful to understand where you can gain the best results for yourself by investing your limited time, energy, and resources. At present in the UK, the answer seems to be with extraparliamentary organisations like the unions, since parliament tends to range between being indifferent and actively malevolent towards you and it's nice to have someone in your corner against it. The idea that Starmerism is the best present hope of the poor and destitute seems far more hollow, cynical, and divorced from reality than what anyone else in this thread is saying.
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Looke posted:Great, until the Tories further restrict union rights That's why you want to expand and popularise the small-l labour movement, yes, in order to make anti-union laws more difficult to implement and enforce without a damaging public backlash against the government. We have evidence from around the world and across history that unions don't just magically vanish as soon as politicians decide they don't like them. You seem to be operating under the assumption that effective opposition to the government can only come from within the Westminster system, when recent evidence appears to suggest the exact opposite. See also, Marcus Rashford and Mick Lynch being vastly more effective public advocates than Starmer.
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I don't think it's accelerationism per se to abandon Westminster and focus your efforts elsewhere, simply an acknowledgement that Parliament doesn't have (and shouldn't have) a monopoly on meaningful political activity. It's how we create accountability and protect ourselves and our interests when elected politicians go rogue. Honestly, Parliament (or, at least, the dominant culture/ideology within it) has radicalised itself and insulated itself from consequence so hard that I think you can make a stronger argument for electoralism being accelerationism. It's extraparliamentary activism that offers more realistic prospects of damage mitigation and progressive policy. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:We're seeing this exact same argument over in the USA, between people who agree that the Dems are dogshit but that it's ultimately a choice between them or the Republicans and people who think that there's no point at all in voting for a "Things still get worse, just a bit more slowly" option and want to build something different. Dunno if this is just an Anglosphere thing or whether there's similar tensions in other Western nations too. Of course, I'm not sure you can even make a solid case that Starmer's Labour will slow the rate at things get worse. They do seem to genuinely share all the meaningful elements of the Tories' ideology.
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FPTP's protection isn't infinite, though. If Labour continues to shrink into a weird little ultra-exclusive cult while screeching that it's everyone else's fault (highly likely), then other political forces (chiefly extraparliamentary, but also eventually parliamentary) will gradually supersede it in power and importance. See also, ScotLab.
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Spangly A posted:Putting all of my pet beria's "whipping discussions" on the blockchain Not the kind of nonce they asked for.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:He's lost my vote then. Can't believe a real man of the people who fancies a job as PM would be seen without a pint in his hand. The terrible dilemma of a man who has been informed that whisky is too Scottish and whiskey is too Irish by his latest focus group.
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Spangly A posted:It does not. It is a pro-deccan film. The film ends with a montage of Deccan revolutionaries and one of the male leads is very explicitly not even Hindu. Yeah, it goes for a very inclusive form of nationalism. They even include a British character (the love interest for one of the two leads) who goes above and beyond the call of duty to help out the Indian rebellion.
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