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Can we get that Reeves Telegraph interview in full here from past the paywall? I've only seen excerpts, and they're all batshit.
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Mega Comrade posted:People were screaming for the Staffordshire bull terrier to be banned a couple years ago. Now the number of incidents linked to them has fallen despite their ownership numbers barely moving. Its now the Bully XL that has caught the Daily Mails eye. The disappointment at expecting a belly-rub and yet being denied one is palpable.
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Condolences to the friends and family, and let me add that I was another who found the fudge to be magnificent.
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Miftan posted:Back when the thread used to do polls we'd get hundreds (sometimes almost a thousand iirc) answers to the poll despite the thread having under 50 regulars. Run a poll on chocolate oranges? It's possible you are the spokesperson for a silent majority.
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Sep 13, 2023 11:45
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Beefeater1980 posted:She was always the Home Counties Principled (thick and unimaginative rather than self interested and evil) kind of Tory. She got to be in charge of the immediate fallout of the Brexit vote and the Tory party tearing itself apart so that Boris could ride in and take the credit for “ending” (starting) that. It’s not surprising that she’s developing a couple of more normal human views the further she gets away from actual power. lolnope, May is/was a monster of outlandish proportions. quote:The Home Office is refusing to reveal how many detainees have been sexually assaulted or raped inside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire in case the information becoming public knowledge harms the “commercial interests” of private companies that are involved in running it, The Independent can reveal.
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I think that while Brand is a hideous sexmonster who deserves what's coming to him, the 'he's being attacked on partisan terms' stuff brushes close to a certain kind of truth in that it is, in fact, possible for sexmonsters of similar or greater heinousness to get away with barely a peep from the media if they're in with the right people. Consider Dan Wootton, who got up to much the same stuff as Brand and used a series of false identities to run a blackmail business of unknown-but-significant scope, and who doesn't appear to have received any coverage of his crimes from Murdoch media because he's one of theirs. Also Nick Cohen, who admittedly seems to have engaged in less extreme criminality (as far as we know) but went completely without mention until the goddamned New York Times stuck its oar in, and is still the recipient of general institutional amnesia.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:56
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I respect their right to show up in historically-accurate uniforms for a celebration of the 1940s so long as they understand that it also comes with the right to be blasted by a historically-accurate Sherman Firefly's 17-pounder cannon at the earliest possible opportunity.
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CGI Stardust posted:yeah, there's a strain of GC that believes, what's the phrase, "transgender is the advertisement for transhumanism", courtesy of nutjob conspiracy theorist and Deep Green Resistance crypto-ecofascist GC thinker Jennifer Bilek who thinks the trans rights movement started in the mid-2000s funded by several (coincidentally Jewish) billionaires / millionaires as a means to push The Transhumanist Agenda, a full-on Great Replacement narrative but targetting cis women (sorry, ~natal women~) who would no longer be required for reproduction Bilek's not 'crypto' (unless she's into Bitcoin, which seems plausible) - she's been caught openly boosting Nazis.
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Sep 21, 2023 20:22
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Gorn Myson posted:Saw Stewart Lee doing a bit of stand up last week and it looks like his next big show will have a thread going through it that pays off with a routine attacking TERFs and JK Rowling in the manner you'd expect from him. Heard Lee was a bit melty. Glad he has his limits, especially given how much of the UK's media-political clique has been radicalising insanely fast over trans issues.
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Sep 23, 2023 19:49
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If you're not aware that British police also kill black and minority ethnic people at a severely disproportionate rate, and that this has been the subject of considerable scholarship and reportage over the years, then honestly, that's a you problem. This is hardly niche knowledge when talking about police violence.
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https://twitter.com/whelankarl/status/1707478714374656170?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Good thread on that pair of parasites who build that dodgy tower block, and their habit of hoarding land without serious investment.
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I... think I can see the logic here? By giving women the vote, the state was relinquishing its (and its male voters') power over women to women, in much the same way that transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy is a ceding of power from the state to the public.
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Sep 29, 2023 15:17
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Guavanaut posted:But where did the state get those things in the first place, and from whom? I guess that's where we get into the reams of feminist historical research on the disenfranchisement of women from politics in the British Isles.
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Mr Owl posted:Whats a TBM? Tunnel Boring Machine.
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Bel Shazar posted:I only speak American English... what does 'too much weed' mean? Too much hash. Skunk. Aunt Mary. Black gunion. Devil's lettuce. Ganja. The bud. You know, Reverend Green.
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keep punching joe posted:Do a deep fake of Starmer admitting to drunk driving and killing that cyclist. Admittedly, the fact that the cyclist is still alive may make this a little more challenging, but I have faith that a sufficient quantity of sufficiently convincing deepfakes can render that irrelevant.
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Skulker posted:What was it that Jeremy Corbyn supposedly did that was so antisemitic? Anything I've read about it makes it seem like some kind of recursive loop where he was being antisemitic by not responding to accusations of antisemitism seriously enough. So what started it? He's a lifelong anti-apartheid campaigner who, like many anti-apartheid campaigners, treated I/P as part of the same struggle. Pretty much everything else is the exact same recursive loop of deliberately disingenuous nonsense you're talking about.
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https://x.com/conor_matchett/status/1711369855604060438?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Welp, looks like we're quite possibly only a few days away from victim-blaming the in-laws of the First Minister of Scotland for being victims of a genocide by one of our ally states. This timeline really is insanely dark.
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Trust the Times to report on the grimmest subject matter in the most reprehensible possible way. Spoiler warning, picture of injured children: https://x.com/wyattreed13/status/1712744733682930115?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Guavanaut posted:You could consensually donate your body to cookery. Armin Meiwes account spotted.
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Oct 14, 2023 13:29
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Jel Shaker posted:maybe but i can guarantee no future international organisation will ever have the uk and france as permanent members so France might hang on thanks to being a major player in the EU, even if Germany is more famous as the top nation in the organisation. They certainly seem like their international influence has firmed foundations than the UK's.
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A while back, I used the term 'homeopathic opposition' to describe the New New Labour political strategy, and I'd say that remains accurate.
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https://x.com/adambienkov/status/1713431515391013286?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q bleak lol. Ed Miliband is perhaps the most cucked individual in British politics (a category that also includes Harry Cole, I remind you).
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https://x.com/sdphq/status/1713233882647085297?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Sharing a stage with Rod Liddle to show how committed you are to protecting women.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Our generation needs a good cavalry-based war. gently caress paying for that, some local duke should be raising funds and buying armour for the local lads to go bash some Saracens I've got bad news for you about what all the wannabe crusaders are up to right now.
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notaspy posted:I thought I might have spelt it wrong. What's the word for the type of artist that disappears up their own arse by making something so obscure that you have to know absolutely everything about everything to get their genius? You may be thinking of 'auteur', although that's not exactly the right definition for the word.
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Oct 16, 2023 12:49
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https://x.com/marcusbarnett_/status/1713961578955985300?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Labour really are impressively vile.
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Dabir posted:It's more likely that a it was a Palestinian rocket malfunction. Nope, Channel 4 and Al-Jazeera have largely ruled out that narrative, not least by pointing out that the IDF repeatedly used blatantly faked evidence for it. Biden's comments on the matter were incoherent, but seemed to indicate that the US's independent evidence was just that same faked IDF stuff all over again. https://x.com/owenjones84/status/1715023708845199795?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Turns out the people who struck the hospital with missiles twice and then gave its owners three telephoned warnings to evacuate probably did bomb the hospital.
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Dabir posted:He's making a far more convincing case than "no, to the contrary". It was an explosive airburst that knocked down false ceilings inside the adjacent hospital and turned five hundred people into mincemeat, according to the eyewitness testimony of a celebrated MSF surgeon. But yes, I'm sure your beardy YouTube guy has all the answers.
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Dabir posted:You have literally been gleefully posting about your adventures in blatantly making poo poo up so why should I trust anything you say? Because you do it for free? You going to reply to me about that charming little attempt to minimise mass murder with that 'bottle rocket' line?
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For the record, Labour flat-out rejected a successful conference motion for the public ownership of energy more or less as soon as it passed. https://x.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1711642141179494724?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Starmer's 'douse fires with petrol' strategy seems to be working juuust fine. https://x.com/taj_ali1/status/1715496332838748265?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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I think ethnic cleansing makes most sense as a term when the primary purpose appears to be expelling/relocating an ethnic group, and genocide makes most sense when the primary purpose appears to be exterminating them. In this case, the indiscriminate nature of Israel's attacks and their obvious disinterest in creating evacuation corridors to help Gazans flee their homes makes it fairly clear that is a genocide poorly disguised as ethnic cleansing - and the fact that Israel apparently views the forced relocation of two million people as the 'reasonable' option they should pretend to be interested in is itself pretty horrifying.
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm kind of hoping, perhaps naively, that Israel is overplaying its hand here. They've been able to get away with heinous poo poo for decades because they've had a sympathetic media willing to edit events in a way that helps hide the scale of their brutality. They still do, of course, but the level of violence they're now directing at Gaza is almost impossible to disguise, and public opinion in their ally states is turning fast. Afaict your average Joe was relatively sympathetic after hamas invaded, but outside of a few dyed in the wool ultrazionists and insane right-wingers almost nobody now thinks their response is proportional. Even people I know personally who were generally apathetic or vaguely pro-Israel are now going Certainly, if they get conclusive evidence that they do not actually have the practical capacity to destroy Hamas and completely exterminate the Gazans after a strike this wounding, then domestic Israeli policies could start getting very, very interesting. They've invested a great deal in being an international settler project with a pacified native population, and if Hamas and Hezbollah can succeed in making Israel an unattractive place to move to and invest in, that may end up being one of the few potentially effective brakes on apartheid just as the Angolan Bush War and the sanctions campaign were for South Africa. Not a cheerful thought to go 'actually, maybe vicious acts of terrorism that cannot be adequately addressed by the security state work', but their historical success rate is non-zero, and it's not like any of the nicer, more ethical means of applying pressure have borne any serious fruit so far.
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at what is happening. If that keeps up, and politicians realise they're tanking their popularity by uncritically cheering it on, the dam will have to give, and realistically a few very stern behind the scenes warnings from countries like the USA could reign them in. It's not a solution, and piles of harm has already been done, but there's at least a small chance Israel is forced to at least take its foot off the gas before it accomplishes the total destruction it clearly wants. I hope so, at least.
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keep punching joe posted:Why aren't the sailors washing their own sheets? According to the ex-Navy members of my family, it's because (a) hygiene is important enough aboard ships that you really want specialist laundry staff for it, and (b) the Chinese companies they were contracting for this had a genuinely excellent service record.
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smellmycheese posted:Maybe I’m just getting older but perhaps knowing that Keith and his Briefcase gang are just going to run damage control while the Tories regroup is better than whatever that feeling was in 1997 that Blair actually had some genuine intent to reform how this decrepit archaic shithole was managed The idea that New New Labour are going to be interested in and capable of 'damage control' seems a bit optimistic in and of itself, TBH.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't really know that being told to gently caress off by basically everybody constitutes "getting away with it" and I again don't really understand why probations have more significance than that. They're functionally the same thing. It sends a message that the mods are watching, creates an actual, tangible consequence for bad behaviour (if a small one), and creates a permanent record on their rap sheet for future reference and context if they're behaving suspiciously later on.
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Tesseraction posted:This seems a bit worrying https://twitter.com/phoebe_ivy/status/1718957210313675145?s=20 Tortoise has been around for a little while now. They're a long-read column site which has a similar 'actually thoughtful centrist' vibe to the Financial Times.
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