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I think in this case they mean D.E.W.s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon
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BalloonFish posted:To add some colour to this post: the tory guy went out and did volunteer work for the first time in 2019, because he lived in consett and really disliked having laura pidcock as his mp (i guess because of the press going after her so much). the morning after the election he was really happy, but it was (i hate to say) a positive happiness, like the mirror image of a lot of people here in 2017 - 'oh my god, we did it, what a great result and i can't believe i played a little part in it, this is amazing!' the labor guy, who had no connection to consett, was even happier, but in a different way - 'great result! thank gently caress we're rid of that rancid little poo poo pidcock, this will make it easier to ensure there's no repeat of corbyn and *we* get *our* party back'
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No Dignity posted:Just need to survive two years of Truss as PM edit: off to a good start lol https://twitter.com/brianmoore666/status/1549776247231840256 Apraxin fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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I can't even really get on board with the 'at least it'll be funny' aspect of PM Truss, because it's going to be a continuation of grim poo poo like this: https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1549708740613529601 https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1549692153365991424
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Jul 20, 2022 19:43
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Payndz posted:"Economic policy has been poo poo for the last 20 years, including the most recent 12 when we controlled it. Vote for me!"
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Jul 21, 2022 13:53
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Great, nice to see they've moved on to 'people born and raised as cis women but found through testing to have some intersex characteristics or a sexual development disorder are actually men and must be removed from women's spaces', excited to see what the culture war brings us next. https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1550400120130347010
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Jul 22, 2022 20:38
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OwlFancier posted:You, a fool, go with superficial things like "introduces self as woman" or "looks like woman" to define gender, wheras I, having put all my points into craniometry and vibes, am able to perceive the true essence of womanhood and I know that it perfectly lines up with people I like and don't like. My gender lobe is the size of a grapefruit and I can detect the true chromosome wavez coming off people from two hundred paces. I can see auras that look like uteruses around all the true womankind, I'm normal, I'm the only normal one, the rest of the world is crazy. Buy my man detecting dowsing rod it's a Y shaped stick that you point at people and because it's Y shaped that means they're a man, it works every time. actual terfs: one of the silhouettes in the Women's March logo is objectively male, we can tell because of craniometry and vibes https://twitter.com/jodcoll/status/1550416071122984960
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Jul 22, 2022 21:14
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tried looking up a couple of these and uh my genius comedy creation and stand-up persona - an elderly holocaust survivor who wears a yellow flower with six petals on the breast of his jacket
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Jul 26, 2022 14:59
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https://twitter.com/hoffman_noa/status/1551986402199584770 journos are saying the moderator fainted (and from the sound of it fell through a table or something!)
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Jul 26, 2022 19:00
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Bizarre by Hadley Freeman
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Actually, if you read the Beeb article about it, you'll find that that were actually protestors concerned that the story time was "sexualising their children". They held placards and banners, and two of them interrupted the performance. However, the drag performer has stated that their act is not at all sexual in nature, and he was upset by the protest. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-62305083 So many words to describe what happened without actually describing it.
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Jul 27, 2022 16:49
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Lol he's trying to spin it as not being for joining the picket line, but for talking to the media while he was there:quote:A spokesperson said: "The Labour Party will always stand up for working people fighting for better pay, terms and conditions at work.
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Looke posted:https://twitter.com/BristolCouncil/status/1552619092070305792?s=20&t=BbbBtEPHCaFkKGCSiUCFjw  Dario has a strong opinion 
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Lamont posted:My grandad is Irish and was born there, and I believe this makes me eligible to apply for an Irish passport. Has anyone ITT successfully gone through the process? The_Doctor posted:I keep meaning to start the ball rolling on that as my grandfather was from Belfast. I have heard the current time to getting it is like 2 years though. https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/irish_citizenship/foreign_births_register.html (Haven't done the process myself; some relatives have got passports, but it was through having an Irish parent, where you're automatically a citizen and the process is much simpler.)
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Jul 29, 2022 18:50
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Jul 30, 2022 00:31
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Looks like the former, unfortunately. for great-grandchildren their relevant parent has to be in the registry before they were born: (A = irish citizen who was born in ireland, but subsequent generations of their family weren't; D = their grandchild, born outside ireland)
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Jul 30, 2022 21:19
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Tesseraction posted:Could you not persuade your mum to apply and then get one via the child-of-a-citizen rule?
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Jul 30, 2022 22:46
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Umbra Dubium posted:An empty envelope marked "Contains Fentanyl" would put the entire base into a coma, and you wouldn't need to waste any of your precious actual fentanyl.
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Jul 31, 2022 18:13
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Aug 2, 2022 13:57
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Tesseraction posted:Since this thread has some good historians, another goon was wondering aloud if there's any books that deep dive into German public knowledge of what was going on during the Reich up to the point of liberation by the Allied forces, how much the propaganda was believed/disputed and how those who disbelieved it got information. Does anyone know of any books like that? Most of the stuff that easily comes to hand is more about the actions of the resistance movement whereas they were, and made me, curious about the general population. The one guy who was a lib and didn't like the Nazis much but felt powerless to do anything except grumble privately talking about the forms vs the spirit of society still gives me a very uncomfortable feeling, more so in the last half-decade for some reason: quote:“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
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the strong, decisive leadership that we need
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HopperUK posted:I have a book called Hitler's Willing Executioners which is about ordinary Germans and the Holocaust specifically. I have not read it though so if the author is a dickhead I can only apologise for mentioning it: '(Goldhagen argues that the) vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture which had developed in the preceding centuries. Goldhagen argues that eliminationist antisemitism was the cornerstone of German national identity, was unique to Germany, and because of it ordinary German conscripts killed Jews willingly. Goldhagen asserts that this mentality grew out of medieval attitudes rooted in religion and was later secularized.'
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https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1556289850411720705vital services for our citizens are suffering, and the cause is that few staff are physically at the office. to alleviate this i am going to - force all staff to be physically present at their offices, in order to improve efficiency - close many physical offices and slash headcount, in order to improve efficiency also, did you know that flexitime and work-from-home are part of the WOKE AGENDA that seeks to destroy this great nation?
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Shyrka posted:Didn't the Greens specifically say, "If you left Labour then don't try and join us because we don't want anti-semites in our party."? https://twitter.com/ShahrarAli/status/1554045507311378434
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Gonzo McFee posted:I'll say this is a parody because of the "Just for being English" meme. https://twitter.com/boblister_poole/status/1556713877554995200 fake edit: like allison bailey going straight from a victory lap about how her employment tribunal ruling was a landmark in protecting the right to freedom of speech and expression to 'this sign saying 'we support our trans siblings' constitutes illegal discrimination and shouldn't be allowed', it's too cack-handed even for a satire, but here we are anyway https://twitter.com/BluskyeAllison/status/1556350764569829380?cxt=HHwWiIC9wcixopkrAAAA Apraxin fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/horton_official/status/1558136654702977025?cxt=HHwWgoCx8YbCzp8rAAAA Projected crop failure rates of 50% 
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Aug 12, 2022 21:04
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^^^ if starmer can tell the way the wind is blowing and feels safe enough to make a policy statement like that while the tory heir-presumptive is still sticking to 'tax cuts, people don't want handouts, the hard-working energy companies should enjoy their well-deserved profits', it actually makes me a bit more fearful that we're heading to a situation related to what people were talking about last night, where the governing party is in the grasp of the true believers who can't conceive of being wrong about anything and will blithely ignore the signs of civil society cracking apart until we're past the tipping point. that would be bad! anyway, https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1558535256973742080?cxt=HHwWgMC8neHjg6ErAAAA
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the government and jacob rees-mogg: it is draconian and illiberal, nay, anti-British, for universities to ban certain speakers from campus just because they're 'racist' or 'transphobic'. the minds of the nation's youth must be exposed to views and opinions outside of their comfort zone so that they can become mature adults! also the government and jacob rees-mogg: we must not allow career civil servants, whose innocent brains are not yet fully developed, to be corrupted by extremist speakers with beyond-the-pale views such as criticising any aspect of government policy within the past 5 years https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1559097881730187265?cxt=HHwWgoC8qerQg6MrAAAA 
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what could go wrong https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1559171082472591360
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Love to be a serious feminist, doing feminism. https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1560167387860795397 Won't bother posting it, but i'm sure everyone will be surprised to learn that in the full thread it's explained that a program providing period/hygiene products to disadvantaged teens must be opposed because it's part of the trans agenda to destroy women forever.
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josh04 posted:If anyone's feeling nostalgic for Corbyn-level hysterics: https://twitter.com/HarryYorke1/status/1560623439215476737 can't tell if this is a Murdoch journo poo poo-stirring, or Labour leadership immediately jumping to an insane conclusion based on nothing because they're fixated on palace coups, either seems plausible
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Aug 20, 2022 05:21
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'deserving poor vs undeserving poor' is too much of a limp-wristed liberal position for Rees-Mogg imo, he just defaults to 'all poor are undeserving' https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1561381209611067395?cxt=HHwWhoCz3YD8kasrAAAA
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Guavanaut posted:MoD review into statues of racists reveals that they're good actually and we need a few more. What the gently caress.
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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1563157831184191489?cxt=HHwWgsDU-f7wubErAAAA how long do we reckon before PM Truss decides the reclamation of Calais is just the ticket to distract the nation from the energy crisis?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:https://twitter.com/pk_kenzie/status/1564630291301298180?t=fYZZ6y5L5DTzRxaRNTmphw&s=19 .
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Aug 31, 2022 02:26
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mystery solved, i guess https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1565016582903955459 https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1565023307304402944
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Finally, we can all stop posting. https://twitter.com/Lubchansky/status/1536347154352054273
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