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Mega Comrade posted:At what point does everyone realise this is all for attention? Linehan would rather be hated than forgotten. Irrelevance is his worst fear because then he will have to face that it was all for nothing. I'm not sure his thought processes are anywhere near as coherent as that. Dude's moving far, far into 'seriously unwell' territory.
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Dec 7, 2023 09:08
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Tesseraction posted:It is fair to think Linehan should be ignored, but at the same time making AI porn of your critic is not the harmless screaming of a lunatic; it will palpably have an effect on the intended target. Oh yeah, he's definitely dangerous, I just don't think he's dangerous on, like, a careful, strategic level. This seems like a full-fledged 'howling and chucking bricks at passers-by' psychotic break.
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Dec 7, 2023 10:28
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https://x.com/solhugheswriter/status/1733065736552055171?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q bleak lol
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Dec 8, 2023 16:09
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https://x.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1733765920013643866?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q lol, William's going to have a real short wait for the throne.
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Dec 10, 2023 09:36
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a pipe smoking dog posted:lol the tory "moderates" have naturally immediately caved and say they will vote for the bill as is. The Tory 'moderates' were the ones pushing this bill. It's the apeshit far right who are throwing their toys out of the pram because it's not a blatant enough violation of international law for their tastes.
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Dec 11, 2023 20:38
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1734483066855502250 He appears to be a genuinely sincere Zionist, much like he's a genuinely sincere believer that cops and spies = good.
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Dec 12, 2023 14:21
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Mebh posted:All Keith is inspiring me to do is draw a giant cock on my ballot. That's kind of a double-edged sword, considering Starmer very much appears to be a 'the more the public see of him the less they like him' politician.
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Dec 16, 2023 13:42
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https://x.com/navystrang/status/1737123337644675231?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Sex arses heading waaay down south.
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Dec 19, 2023 18:22
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https://x.com/vertigoem/status/1737775454851903606?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q lol Starmer.
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Dec 21, 2023 13:46
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Jedit posted:I would hope that you don't agree with him, because "it's not about the victim, it's about the person using them as a shield" is literally the justification the IDF use for bombing hospitals in Gaza. What was this joke folks are talking about, anyway? Because while it may have been bigoted and awful, I'm struggling to see how it wouldn't be incredibly tacky to compare it to a loving hospital bombing.
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Dec 23, 2023 14:22
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https://x.com/flying_rodent/status/1739420922619027560?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q guh.
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Dec 26, 2023 00:08
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smellmycheese posted:Still, swings and roundabouts. Keith is going to have a big old crackdown on sweets On the one hand, yes, a bunch of these are obvious money-laundering fronts. On the other hand, the odds of New New Labour having serious, useful ideas for revitalising urban industries outside of money-laundering seem slim.
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Dec 26, 2023 00:54
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OwlFancier posted:Of all the problems in the UK I don't think lovely candy shops are one anyone really gives a poo poo about. They're one of our more obvious, visible signs of institutional criminality, so they're an easy thing to build a crackdown around. Problem is that they're very much a symptom rather than the disease.
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Dec 26, 2023 00:58
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Soricidus posted:lol, everyone knows portal is the one with shodan TBF, that's less of a wrong answer than most games would be.
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Dec 28, 2023 10:45
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Jakabite posted:Spoons would be pretty good if they didn’t aggressively put other pubs out of business as part of their main strategy. Cheap food and drink in fairly nice surroundings. Their chips are perhaps the worst I've ever tasted, though.
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Dec 30, 2023 20:41
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Just Another Lurker posted:Just wait for the Snyder Cut. lol that Netflix is actually, literally doing this with a whole-rear end original movie series as a marketing gimmick. For anyone unfamiliar, the Rebel Moon you can watch right now is the cut-down, chopped-up PG-13 version, and the 'real' R-rated version will be released sometime in 2024.
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Jan 3, 2024 12:55
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Ms Adequate posted:Had a proper lol at this, thank you, the image is unhinged and I love it Depends how you define 'recent' (the manga it's adapted from is twenty years old, and that itself was a reinterpretation of a story arc from the 1950s-60s), but Pluto is pretty good.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:07
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Grey Hunter posted:At this point just getting rid of he populist nutjobs and getting a few years of boring will be an improvement. Ah yes, populism is clearly the problem here, and our lives will be significantly improved once Westminster stops even pretending to work for the public and embraces pure parasitic elitism. Seriously, 'populist' becoming the default term for 'politics I don't like' was one of the more insidious elements of mainstream political discourse in the past almost-decade.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:48
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Do not give babies x, you don't want a libertarian racist. https://x.com/bellofdonger/status/1743267076502896857?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Jan 6, 2024 17:32
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https://x.com/politics_co_uk/status/1744697474600595955?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Decided Sir Kid Starver represented too passive a commitment to child murder?
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Jan 9, 2024 16:02
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I haven't seen too much about the results of the strikes? They basically just sprayed the coastline with Tomahawk missiles, which is (a) unlikely to be effective against targets as mobile as missile launchers and drones, and (b) unlikely to indicate a serious, long-term military investment by America, since they're using a weapon with highly limited ammunition that doesn't require them to risk human pilots. This was all a bit performative.
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Jan 12, 2024 15:25
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lol at Reeves actively promising to make poo poo worse if elected: https://x.com/tkispeter/status/1746139063587869023?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Jan 13, 2024 13:25
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Obviously, directly attacking civilian shipping headed to Israeli ports isn't the most squeaky-clean form of activism, but it's a standard tactic of economic warfare that appears to be just as effective here as it is whenever anyone else blockades a hostile country's trade routes (which is pretty much what every serious international military campaign involves, isn't it?). Eliat port, for instance, has seen an 85% drop in traffic.
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Jan 13, 2024 15:25
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Guavanaut posted:Same with "no-fly zone" and "sanctions list" and all the other formal names for poo poo that kills people that don't get extended to others. (And ones that got so out of hand that they lost all euphemistic cover, like "ethnic cleansing") Well, the Houthi clan, more specifically. They're named after their founder, and his direct family and fellow clanspeople make up a significant part of the leadership despite it moving towards being an inclusive pan-nationalist Yemeni movement. Kind of like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, plus bonus Arab tribal politics.
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Jan 13, 2024 16:08
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DreddyMatt posted:What would make you vote Labour in the upcoming election? Rachel Reeves is booted from the party, Starmer resigns in apology for making her chancellor. She pledged ahead of a general election that she would treat people on benefits as second-class citizens, further reinforcing the hostile environment that helped lead to the carnage of COVID-19 (in addition to all the deaths before that, of course). That's entirely unforgivable. As for my vote, I'll go Green unless my local branch embarrass themselves.
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Jan 16, 2024 13:46
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DreddyMatt posted:I think a vote against labour is more useful in the long term, but if people wanna flex their artistic skills, then have at it. Do a big veiny throbber There are, of course, a few people in constituencies where there is no good (or even tolerable) candidate to vote for. Yay FPTP!
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Jan 16, 2024 13:51
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Skarsnik posted:I am thinking long term What are Labour actually, seriously offering that's an improvement on what we've currently got, though? In particular, Reeves seems even more firmly committed to austerity than the Tories are. I'm not actually seeing evidence that them winning is going to be a victory for 'the left' in any meaningful sense - it's a contest between two different teams of personnel for control of the same far-right project.
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Jan 16, 2024 14:17
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More on Reeves being an austerity hardliner: https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1747604548623941875?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Jan 17, 2024 14:34
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Labour unsuspended an openly transphobic council candidate: https://x.com/largacty1/status/1747924713865638392?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Jan 18, 2024 11:14
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https://x.com/metoffice/status/1747936166542725557?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Jan 18, 2024 14:39
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Gonzo McFee posted:Since when has popularity had anything to do with British Politics? When we're talking about popularity among our tiny, incestuous media-political class. There, your popularity is very important.
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Jan 18, 2024 15:49
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Azza Bamboo posted:The electorate sucks. I want autocracy. Yes, thank you, Mr. Starmer. We know.
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Jan 18, 2024 16:03
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In exceedingly grim news, it seems Greater Manchester Police are still as bad as ever at child protection.quote:A whistleblower who resigned from Greater Manchester Police has told Sky News the force's child protection investigation unit where she worked is "not fit for purpose" and that failures have left a paedophile ring at large for at least seven years.
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Jan 22, 2024 15:07
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https://x.com/yvettecoopermp/status/1749946156979814752?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Labour now cracking down on ninja zombies. TBF, I heard that Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z wasn't very good.
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Jan 24, 2024 12:13
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Puntification posted:Zombie knife sounds very goofy, are youths coating their blades in exotic poisons that raise undead wraiths? It means that you have a hell of a time melting them down - they just turn up again in your evidence locker the very next day, only there's twice as many of them.
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Jan 24, 2024 12:47
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The amusing thing about 'ninja swords' is that, like most pieces of ninja lore, they started out as theatre props. Real ninjas did exist, but they either used simple peasant weapons or the standard military weapons of the samurai clans (because the most prominent ninja organisations literally were just samurai clans who specialised in asymmetrical warfare and sold their services to any interested warlords). Easily-identifiable specialist equipment like their own special swords would go against the whole point of having anonymous spies and saboteurs. Ninjato, the straight shortswords associated with ninjas in more modern works, appear to have been completely fictional, and based on misdrawings of samurai wakizashi (the shortswords the samurai caste used as sidearms, which were both practical and readily-available for real ninjas). This is also, for the record, the origin of those 'black pyjama' ninja outfits. Those were actually the outfits used by stagehands in Edo-period theatre, to keep them invisible while rearranging sets between scenes. Having the stagehands turn out to be ninjas and assaulting the main characters was a popular way of breaking the fourth wall as a surprise during a performance.
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Jan 24, 2024 13:27
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Every single time they try to crack down on swords, any definition they come up with falls foul of having to deal with Lord Ponsenby-Fuckhampton with his mansion that has two ancestral cavalry sabres hanging in every room, or the Lord High oval office of Bastard-upon-Thames who wears a sword and wanders up and down the high street shouting as part of his traditional attire. I'm pretty sure they just used peasant outfits in drab earth tones. Much more explicable if someone noticed you than an entire 'hello, I'm a spy, please shoot me' costume.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:07
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Another funny thing about ninjas - ninja guns would be much more historically accurate than 'ninja swords'. The samurai warlords of the late Sengoku period (the chaotic century-long civil war that's what most people think of when they think of medieval Japanese warfare) loving loved Portuguese firearms, and the most successful ones, like Oda Nobunaga, pioneered domestic mass-production of rifles with which to annihilate their enemies. Mercenary bands like the Saika were well-known for their expert marksmen, and there was no need to get right up close to an enemy warlord and spray them with shuriken when you could just hide in a tree on the side of the road and put a bullet between his eyes. When are you cracking down on Tanegashima matchlocks, Yvette?
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Jan 24, 2024 14:21
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For the record, there was actually a term for lovely mass-produced katanas in the Sengoku era - kazuuchimono, which were expected to last one or two battles (which may have been an improvement on the life expectancy of the conscripted farmers they were handed to).
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Also, they need to show evidence within a month that they have punished explicit calls for genocide, including specifically those by their own president. This is also a relevant consequence of this ruling for the UK: https://x.com/jon_trickett/status/1750865451041575421?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Jan 26, 2024 14:00
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