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I'm glad there's no elections here May 2nd 1945, The Fall of Berlin is announced. Meanwhile in Bavaria soldiers of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion (made up of 2nd generation Japanese immigrant volunteers) came across a death march of thousands of Jews being taken from Dachau: "The Nisei saw an open field with several hundred "lumps in the snow." When the soldiers looked closer they realized the "lumps" were people. Some were shot. Some were dead from exposure. Hundreds were alive. But barely." forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:29 on May 2, 2024 |
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May 2, 2024 11:21
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forkboy84 posted:I'm glad there's no elections here (mishearing you at the local impotence support group) that's a hosed up thing to say
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May 2, 2024 11:22
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The piss diamond is probably the best candidate, as they tend to have decent local candidates, but since we removed second choice voting they stand no chance anymore so corpo Labour John "The Wizard" Tizard it is.
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May 2, 2024 11:34
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I did laugh that Laurence Fox did indeed crawl onto the ballot... for a London assembly seat, under no party, relegated to the also-rans at the very bottom of the voting slip.
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May 2, 2024 11:35
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Our PCC is currently Tory, I looked at the statements for the candidates and the Lib Dem and Green ones seemed reasonable, the Tory one was as you would expect. The Labour one is basically just “vote for us instead of the Tories” with not much else in the way of statements.
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May 2, 2024 11:37
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Dr. Cool Aids posted:(mishearing you at the local impotence support group) that's a hosed up thing to say Bedford Quality posting from Dr Cool AIDS
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May 2, 2024 11:46
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm pretty sure the only people actually calling for this are the usual delusional suspects: lead-brained old boomers and culture war fascists. Afiak barely anyone who's actually served supports conscription because they know that conflict actually sucks in reality, and also more pragmatically that having a comrade who's terrified and doesn't know the barrel of a gun from the handle is a good way of getting yourself killed. Yeah, as with most of these things, I've never heard any friend, relative or colleague ever mention conscription, it's just a weird confected row that newspaper columnists have among themselves. You can't do conscription in a neoliberal society like ours anyway, the social contract where people serve their country in return for the expectation of economic security simply doesn't exist. (And also, the barracks and training facilities where conscripts would go to have all been sold off and turned into housing.)
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May 2, 2024 11:52
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The Erectile Dysfunction Support Group, otherwise known as the Bedfordshire Conservative Party.
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May 2, 2024 11:53
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Pistol_Pete posted:You can't do conscription in a neoliberal society like ours anyway, the social contract where people serve their country in return for the expectation of economic security simply doesn't exist. Conscripted to scoop turds out of the local waterways.
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May 2, 2024 11:54
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We've got the three main parties as PCC, then a guy running as an anti-corruption candidate. His page says he wants to end the PCC as an elected position and will not take a salary - which is good! - and then goes on to blame the usual woke poo poo. Labour it is, sadly.
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May 2, 2024 12:00
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My dad has carefully crafted a fully-costed solution to the NHS staffing crisis "all you gotta do, is turn around, pay them all 50k, end of story"
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May 2, 2024 12:01
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No paraphrasing there either, that was verbatim
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May 2, 2024 12:02
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-voter-id-local-elections-b2538329.html quote:Tory MP pleads for help ahead of local elections after realising he has no valid form of Voter ID
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May 2, 2024 12:04
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Necrothatcher posted:I did laugh that Laurence Fox did indeed crawl onto the ballot... for a London assembly seat, under no party, relegated to the also-rans at the very bottom of the voting slip. Honestly, maybe it would be funnier if gets the seat and just keeps being sidelined in every single meeting.
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May 2, 2024 12:05
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha "I never thought the leopards would eat my face", says man who couldn't vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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May 2, 2024 12:06
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Another Tory entering politics with the Dangerous Surname.
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May 2, 2024 12:09
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah he did, and went from 38 percentage point majority in 2019 to 3pp loss. Sucks to suck, Festus. And yet you did it anyway
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May 2, 2024 12:11
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha loving hell that article. 6 paragraphs and the first 5 are the goddamn same quote:Tory MP pleads for help... he has no valid form of Voter ID I thought I was having a stroke
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May 2, 2024 12:14
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Microplastics posted:No paraphrasing there either, that was verbatim I mean, he's not entirely wrong. Where can I find your dad's manifesto?
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May 2, 2024 12:19
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Rarity posted:Went for the absolute worst roulette strategy and chucked it all on Green As long as it's not a double zero table it's as good a bet as any!
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May 2, 2024 12:23
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el dingo posted:And yet you did it anyway *sighing and putting on a pointy hat* you've got me
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May 2, 2024 12:23
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David Duke pointy hat or J K Rowling pointy hat?Microplastics posted:loving hell that article. 6 paragraphs and the first 5 are the goddamn same
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May 2, 2024 12:26
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Guavanaut posted:David Duke pointy hat or J K Rowling pointy hat? By the time Hermione wants to free the elves from slavery is there really a difference?
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May 2, 2024 12:30
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hmm... J KKK Rowling
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May 2, 2024 12:39
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feedmegin posted:I don't know, fighting your country can be justified, don't we like revolutions itt? That's not fighting for your country, that's fighting for your material interests (and also frankly a last resort)
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May 2, 2024 12:41
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Tesseraction posted:By the time Hermione wants to free the elves from slavery is there really a difference? Okay, one of them believes that there's a conspiracy of doctors at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine to turn all the kids LGBT and the other... No I've got it, one of them writes racist manifestos about halal takeaways and male murderers hiding in hijabs while themself hiding beneath a pen name, and the other... Well poo poo, you're right.
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May 2, 2024 12:42
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Also given the sad announcement that Richard Tandy of ELO passed away I learned that ELO co-founder Roy Wood of Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day fame was a proud member of the Brexit Party, another co-founder, drummer Bev Bevan, was briefly in Black Sabbath after ELO but was kicked out for refusing to play in South Africa due to apartheid. You really can see a lot of differing viewpoints from old band mates.
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May 2, 2024 12:49
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May 2, 2024 13:10
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hoping for more Tory Armageddon in the results but dread sir haircut taking all the credit
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May 2, 2024 13:14
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I postal voted Green for top plod, if by some measure Labour and Green are split and a Tory gets in (I guess possible given Avon and Somerset) maybe just maybe it might move that cog in Starmers head that electoral reform is needed. Not holding up much hope
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May 2, 2024 13:15
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Open-palmed slam pissed my vote for the Great Brian Rose today - can't wait to have 100,000 affordable new homes built by the end of June. Lets all drink our urine in celebration
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May 2, 2024 13:16
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This is a good illustration of why all you hear from the Tories these days is that populist, Little Englander stuff. As things stand, they're finished: if they can somehow cut a deal with the Reform guys and get those votes back, their share goes from 20ish % (catastrophic defeat) to 35ish % (narrow defeat, or even a hung parliament, if the vagaries of our 1st past the post electoral system play out in their favour). It would be along the same lines as the 2019 election, where the Brexit Party eventually agreed to step aside in Tory seats, with the tacit understanding that the Tories would supply a hard Brexit in return. The question is whether the people running Reform are prepared to play the same political game that the Brexit party did, of if they're genuinely aiming at destroying and replacing the Tories.
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May 2, 2024 13:34
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I think they probably would for Boris, but would not for Rishi. Too many of Reform's true believers have bought into the idea that he's a WEF Globalist lizard person, and you can't get that type of voter back just by not running a candidate.
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May 2, 2024 13:39
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EvilHawk posted:We've got the three main parties as PCC, then a guy running as an anti-corruption candidate. His page says he wants to end the PCC as an elected position and will not take a salary - which is good! - and then goes on to blame the usual woke poo poo. Same here, except our independent candidate is this tinfoil hat anti-5G swivel-eyed loon. Probably gonna go and write a bad swear down all the boxes instead of voting tbh.
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May 2, 2024 13:58
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Probably not going to be able to vote, didn't sort out ID in time. Looking forward to the government having a new reason for calling me lazy.
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May 2, 2024 13:58
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Probably not going to be able to vote, didn't sort out ID in time. Looking forward to the government having a new reason for calling me lazy. Well you will have it for the GE which is more important, or sign up for postal voting. The only big drawback to postal voting is not seeing dogs at polling stations
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May 2, 2024 14:01
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Aipsh posted:Anyone got any good Brain Rose getting 100% of the mayoral votes a la Jeb Bush memes 
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May 2, 2024 14:15
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Ok getting the Thames lined up with the piss pint is an inspired touch
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May 2, 2024 14:17
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Pistol_Pete posted:The question is whether the people running Reform are prepared to play the same political game that the Brexit party did, of if they're genuinely aiming at destroying and replacing the Tories. Aren't they in many cases exactly the same people? I wonder if they've learned anything.
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May 2, 2024 14:19
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Brian Rose is still a thing? I used to follow him when he just made videos, then stopped when he teamed up with David Icke during Covid
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