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Bringing this across. WhatEvil in the last thread posted:The other thing is that arguably the second most important political axis is the authoritarian/libertarian axis. This is why horseshoe theory is actually correct, but misrepresented and misunderstood. The people who like to propose horseshoe theory see the horseshoe as bringing extreme authoritarian factions close together while they, as reasonable centrists, are as far away from the extremes as possible. But in fact the horseshoe is the other way up. Nonce libertarians and anarcho-Marxist astrohomosexualists are at extreme opposite ends of the spectrum but are brought closer together by their desire to not be subject to government tyranny. The authoritarian left and authoritarian right are close together and both inherently fascistic because as you say, their being left or right wing is subsumed by and made secondary to their being tyrannical. And the centrists are indeed in the centre - slap bang between the two types of authoritarian. Which is why centrists always side with fascists over socialists: because politically they are inevitably closer to them. Jedit fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I hate his stupid hat so much. Why does he wear it all the time? Take off the hat. It's because he's bald.
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Mar 1, 2024 11:52
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The Question IRL posted:
If you're even loosely familiar with The Twelve Caesars you'll know that being evil, mad and foolish are not mutually exclusive. And given the evil and mad poo poo that Putin has got away with already, I'd almost have to go with "pushing it too far with an invasion" being his folly.
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Mar 1, 2024 19:33
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EvilHawk posted:So what the gently caress was wrong with the Lib Dem candidate? They were a Liberal Democrat.
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Mar 1, 2024 20:28
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Nuclear Spoon posted:the longer you spend with your hand in the cash register the more likely it is you'll get caught They've already been caught. They're doing it openly and they know there will never be any consequences for it because Kunt Hitler and his National Socialist Labour want to do exactly the same thing themselves.
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Mar 3, 2024 21:11
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jaete posted:Hmm, there was Jo Cox, and then later wasn't there also that conservative MP who was stabbed or something... I can't remember if the latter was during an election though. That was David Amess, and it wasn't during an election. Neither was Jo Cox, technically - she was murdered by a neo-Nazi Brexiteer during the EU referendum campaign because she supported Remain. And yes, it was a lot more than usual. Jo Cox's death was the first time an MP had been murdered since 1990 and the only time a Labour MP has ever been murdered.
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Mar 4, 2024 10:47
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Failed Imagineer posted:Who are those 2 Labour losses? Is one of them the Jam Man? Corbyn and Abbott, presumably.
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Mar 4, 2024 12:40
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Ms Adequate posted:I can't even wrap my head around the consequences of an outcome like that. That's the kind of ridiculous result that only happens when you're abusing a game mechanic in Vicky or something. It's also making me want to vote Lab because useless spunk-filled johnnies though they may be, the lure of the bants is strong. People saying that they're willing to support an act of immense harm to the UK because it would be funny is a part of why we're no longer in the EU.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:27
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Failed Imagineer posted:Sure, but it's not like there's a good alternative on offer here Just because the world is burning doesn't mean I have to toast marshmallows.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:59
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Ms Adequate posted:This is just picking the color of rosette on the dickheads who are going to gently caress us over. It's not equivalent to Brexit where there was an actual choice to be made between No Changes and Lots Of Damage. They're not getting wiped out though, are they? As you said: they're just being replaced by other Tories with a different rosette. I'd find it far funnier to watch Starmer lose to this zombie shell of halfwits led by a halfpint who he's been trying to be even worse than to chase six senile boomer votes.
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Mar 4, 2024 23:45
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Tesseraction posted:The Tories got what they wanted, the youth impoverished and in despair, and then they bitch about us not having kids. I wouldn't say that they wanted that. They wanted to have all the money. An impoverished despairing youth is just a by-product of that, one that Tories don't care about because they are not young. Everything else is the standard boomerism of "I did it with all the advantages I had, so why can't you do it now we've taken them away?"
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Mar 5, 2024 14:44
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domhal posted:Its cool how insulated central government are from these issues at a glance. Just irresponsible councils who don't know how to balance their budgets, overspend on diversity initiatives and invested poorly. They should have been more sensible. Nothing to do the Westminster or the chancellor. Croydon deserved it after burning £500m on dodgy property investments, Labour council or not.
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Mar 6, 2024 01:46
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Kate pegs Will, Stop you right there - the rumours are that William cheated on Kate because she refused to peg him.
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Mar 6, 2024 16:53
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PriorMarcus posted:So what is it that Keith saw which scared him so much? A black man, probably.
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Mar 7, 2024 12:39
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OwlFancier posted:Keith comes up to the mic "I'm keir starmer and I'm here to say, fiscal responsibility is important, hey! My dad was a tool maker didn't raise a fool, we'll reform the NHS to make it really cool!" and then gets drop kicked off the stage. This is MC Starmer and I'm on the mic To tell you that you can't have the things you like You need more funding for the NHS? We'll make them do more with even less And when those suckers admit defeat My homie Wes will take them to the street Disabled, on benefits, unable to fight? You want to be frei, you better arbeit Leader of the Opposition, that's me That's why I support every gubmint policy Migrants to Rwanda, tax cuts to the rich I just bend over as they make me their bitch Now their donors all desert them They come to me, say "Please Starmer, don't hurt them" Sure, like I'd do it any other way Can't arrest thieves, they might run away
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Mar 7, 2024 16:05
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Failed Imagineer posted:Bars, honestly Keith has propped up more than a few, but apart from that I don't see the relevance?
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Mar 7, 2024 16:26
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Someone has just pointed out that in addition to what's his face from Blur being selected as a Labour candidate, Tom Gray of Gomez is the Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion. So very, very much trying to rerun the Cool Britannia vibe.
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Mar 8, 2024 12:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:"We Haven't Turned Around" can become an ironic Labour anthem They should get Gaz Coombes from Supergrass in as well. We're not young, we're not green We're not Germy Corbeen See our friends, see the sights Appeal far right
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Mar 8, 2024 12:50
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The Saviour posted:The confusion about the Oct 7 attacks is interesting, the amount of misinformation, deliberate propaganda, and bias from both sides is unlike anything I've read about. I can't sympathise with any part of the murdering kids myself. Whether or not they were raped as well isn't strictly relevant except insofar as it's being used by the Israelis as a clarion call for genocide.
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Mar 8, 2024 15:36
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Just Another Lurker posted:The English had quite a little pogrom against Irish harpers back in the day, killing them on sight. Well that's hardly surprising when the tales tell of one bard who called his harp to him in battle and it slew seven men as it flew to his hand. Also laughing my rear end off at that photo of Laurence Fox and Yaxley-Lennon. Fox is a tall man, but even so - it's a tossup as to whether Y-L hates Rishi Sunak more for not being white or for being taller than him. What a little manlet.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:12
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OwlFancier posted:After three readings I believe the government can override the lords on any bill, but that takes a while. Close, but not quite. All bills are read three times in the Lords before they pass, although sometimes the process is a formality. First reading in the Lords is when the upper house is made aware of the bill. Second reading is where the Lords debate the bill and raise any concerns. Third reading is the amendments stage, after which the bill is returned to the Commons. If the bill is fairly straightforward then Second Reading is basically "OK, looks alright, we don't need a third reading but we'll say we did". If the Lords amend a bill, the Commons must agree on the wording. This often leads to what is known officially as "ping pong" - I kid you not, it's the term used on the Parliament website - where the bill is sent back and forth between the houses with new revisions until both find a wording that they agree on. If this goes on for more than one year from the date of Second reading in the Commons (the first Commons debate), then and only then can the Commons send a bill for royal assent without the consent of the Lords.
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Mar 11, 2024 01:49
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fuctifino posted:I think they have to go through a whole cycle of a parliamentary year before the Lords can be ignored(??) so Rishi won't be able to force it through in time I was going to say it's been a year since the Rwanda Bill got a second reading in the Commons, but apparently it was 12th December? That said: if Sunak does stretch out this government absolutely as long as possible, he will be able to force it through before closing Parliament as the last possible date for that is 17th December this year. It would literally be the last thing he did, and I can see him doing it because he knows Starmer won't reverse it.
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Mar 11, 2024 09:42
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Runcible Cat posted:I think if she was actually dead they'd be steering towards an announcement with "oh no seriously ill" kind of thing so I'm on the she's either on a life glug or took such a punch to the face the plastic surgeons are still wrestling with it side. On the subject of plastic surgery: I have been thinking that it's possible Kate has had to have an Angelina Jolie Special - preventative hysterectomy and double mastectomy - and doesn't want to be seen because her breast reconstruction isn't finished properly yet.
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Mar 11, 2024 11:17
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I don't really like the idea of Reform being bigger than the Lib Dems, but Christ only knows the Piss Tories deserve it.
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Mar 11, 2024 12:56
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Jakabite posted:Halloumi is the go to squeaky food example I suppose. Sausages don’t actually squeak but they definitely can have that sort of glazed, slightly tough quality to them that gives them a degree of squeakiness. I’m trying to think of other squeaky foods now Bubble and squeak? Halloumi is the poster child for food that squeaks, though, can't argue there.
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Mar 12, 2024 01:45
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Kin posted:Yeah I saw this yesterday. Initially thought it was silly but then it zoomed in on parts of the picture I never noticed were photoshopped, but clearly had been with bad blends and color. Come on - a lot of the argument revolves around someone not wearing the same boots twice.
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Mar 12, 2024 10:11
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Failed Imagineer posted:Agreed, it was an (admittedly brief) international cause celèbre when those Saudi princesses were doing a runner, this has the potential to be more sinister. Not sure if the Royals are quite up to chopping up journalists yet tho More sinister than a man beheading his own teenage niece in a car park and forcing her boyfriend to watch?
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Mar 12, 2024 12:50
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notaspy posted:Wtf, have you got a link to this story please? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishaal_bint_Fahd_Al_Saud Very famous story, although mostly because ITV made a docudrama about it ("Death of a Princess") and were made to issue a groveling apology to the house of Saud for offending them. (Which was parodied by Not the Nine O'clock News, who framed it as "if you want to execute your princesses then go right ahead, as many as you like. You can have a couple of ours, if you want.")
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Mar 12, 2024 13:24
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feedmegin posted:It's a bad look to have people step off the plane and immediately be beheaded by the Taliban. We're literally accepting asylum seekers from Rwanda while proclaiming that it's a safe place to send people to. The hypocrisy is insane.
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Mar 13, 2024 10:59
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FizFashizzle posted:Even for precocious puberty!? If there is any hint that the kid is trans, presumably. But let us be realistic here: there's no use for puberty blockers except giving them to children. This measure is essentially outlawing a legitimate medical treatment because a trans person might benefit from it.
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Mar 13, 2024 12:05
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Tesseraction posted:Sure he said some racist things, which we support, but he also gave us loads of money, which we support. "And he wants to kill Labour MPs, which we definitely support."
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Mar 13, 2024 12:43
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What do you call a Welsh serial killer? Dai Dai Dai!
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Mar 13, 2024 16:10
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smellmycheese posted:All extremely normal Today we learn the difference between "upbeat" and "beat up".
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Mar 15, 2024 11:18
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Guavanaut posted:Like when the KKK tried to sponsor a highway in Missouri, the DoT tried to block them, a court ordered they had to be allowed, and the DoT said fine, Klan sponsored highway, but we still get to name it. Imagine being more racist than the US government.
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Mar 15, 2024 15:22
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fuctifino posted:I propose a celebrity deathmatch form of politics: There are 650 MPs, but only 427 physical seats in the House of Commons chamber. So we arm them each MP with a ceremonial mace, and we let them fight it out. The winners will be those who have successfully retained a physical seat while also retaining their life. It would be funnier to have Black Rod announcing "When the national anthem stops..." Rose Hanbury was 25 when she married the Marquis of Boute-Sexe, by the way, not 19. He is 24 years her senior though.
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Mar 16, 2024 13:20
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Guavanaut posted:These days someone calling themselves a grammar nazi would be more likely to be going around claiming that Jews invented semicolons to cause phrase mixing. Whereas we all know that semicolons are used when your grammar is half-arsed.
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Mar 17, 2024 18:55
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The first three are toothless, but the last two would allow Ofcom to shut GBeebies down completely. Which they should do, of course, but probably won't - at least not while the Tories are still in power.
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Mar 18, 2024 12:50
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Renfield posted:Talk to https://www.stepchange.org/ - charity that gives debt advice. That's an appropriate name for a charity that starts its consultations by asking what you were doing. More seriously: that's really awful, smellmycheese. Hopefully there's some way you can avoid liability for some of the loans at least, and there might be some banking protection on the business account? E: Jesus suffering gently caress, that's even worse.
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Mar 18, 2024 19:26
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smellmycheese posted:Some late night spice Who wants to take over, is the question. That chalice isn't so much poisoned as napalmed. Or are they just trying to force him into calling a GE because they know that however hosed they are now, it will be worse in six or nine months.
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Mar 19, 2024 00:57
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Guavanaut posted:I'd buy Andrew and stick him on my roof like in that Yiddish musical. No, you fool, we said topple the monarchy!
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Mar 19, 2024 11:51
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