no hoi polloi/twitter embeds politics thread

i will be seeking mod enforcement of the conditions noted in the thread title fyi

so, those election results were pretty fucking stark eh.

I choose to interpret this as 'no hoi polloi, ONLY political twitter embeds itt'.

xp i blame hoi polloi

hp sauce from nv

daddies in the room

no income tax, no vat
no money back, no guarantee
black or white, rich or poor
we'll ban embeds at a stroke

So the Norwegian government collapsed, huh? Sure is interesting.

Any thoughts on Luigi Di Maio stepping down? That is some really exciting politics to me.

I feel like posting here is just as much of a trap, but let's see

this is exciting, are the two threads going to launch occasional raids on one-another?

I mean, I hope not, of course.

it's a-me, luigi de mario

I am forced to assume that the thread title is intentionally vague wrt geographical/temporal parameters.

So this whole fall of Lachish shit is some serious no fuckin' around business, huh.

xp i blame hoi polloi

tous pollous!

Hanoi Rocks youtube embeds however are more than welcome here, and in fact, mandatory - once per day

per poster

That Zhou Xianwang should resign straight away, total disgrace.

i was just about to ask about Youtube embeds but i'll put it somewhere else

YT embeds welcome when deployed with parsimony.

look there are plenty of threads to argue about food

this is exciting, are the two threads going to launch occasional raids on one-another?

I mean, I hope not, of course.

i was just about to ask about Youtube embeds but i'll put it somewhere else

leo v is squeaky clean

<libellous remark> from <libellous remark> on the quays anyway

good to see my <redacted> hard at work

so are we actually doing this then

Libby isn't a monster, she isn't any more pro-developer than every other mayor we've had for the past two decades

Great news out of Emilia-Romagna. What a relief! A splendid display of politics.

Oh that is good news btw.

Relief is the word. An auspicious start to the day.

can we all just check that we aren't hoi polloi pls, audits and all that thku

Yes, good Italian politics today. The bad politician gave it his best politics shot, but the good politician was the politicsest so he won.

Who needs politics embeds anyway?

I'll get my manservant to ferry my DNA to the genealogy lab

My name is Hoi Polloi, for we are many.

'hoi polloi' sounds like 'high on onions' in Danish and also 'onions' is slang for testicles.

nowonmai

Slicing testiclesonions makes me cry.

I guess with all the testosterone-fueled rage-posting in this thread, it's sorta accurate to say we are high on testicles.

Wrathposting as per this thread's instructions:

From Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús (“much, many”), o-grade derivative of the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognates include Latin plūs (“more”), Sanskrit पुरु (puru, “much, many, abundant”), Old Irish oll (“great, vast”), Old English feolo (“much, many”) and Old Armenian յոլով (yolov).

The Emilio-Romagna tussle between right and left puts me immediately in mind of the Don Camillo books, except the left now is not the Communist left, and the right now is certainly not the traditionalist soft-right of Fr. Don himself (in fact, fascism IS represented in the books, as the common enemy of both sides, which in turn need each other - an interesting dialectical position for such an ostensibly light entertainment)

this is not a thread for wrathposting tyvm

unless you mean as if we were posting from an easily defended raised earthen fort obv

That is exactly what I mean.

I'm in a raised earthen fort and Pericles is young #hoipolloi

been spending 5 minutes trying to calibrate a motte & bailey pun, just can't find the motte juste

Was classical Athens the sole true democracy in that it only allowed the right kind of denizens to vote? Discuss. #TeamHoiOligoi

maybe the truest democracy of all would force you to choose between enfranchisement and having a Twitter account

operation denizen

#oligoisatthewheel

really glad a thread for quality politics content exists

operation daenerys

gyac pls link me to the quality politics thread

What does the 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae teach us about the 2020 Labour Party leadership election?

THIS. IS. STARMEEER

THIS

IS

STARMER

fuck

If this isn't quality, I don't know what is. Well done hoplites.

no claims of quality itt

infamously, stalin doctored the excelsior so that only gazzara could be seen

You're not the sole member of this oligarchy, we few all get to dictate the rules.

xp

wtf i'm a tankie now

we hoppy few

Great revive xp

ffs

Is that like a phalanxie or something.

phalanxie

Ah yes Phalanxie, who famously had an artwork of his shredded at an auction in Hellenistic times.

#oypolloi

skunk phalanxie

xp It was this tableau vivant iirc:

https://j4i2w7h7.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Age-of-Empires-Definitive-Edition-Beta-Sign-Up.gif

Lmao :D Spot on.