…he said, throwing his arms around the horse's neck.
― pomenitul, Monday, 12 August 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
I just want to see a mountain of tory skulls, and then take a good shit into every single one of them. And then have a picnic next to one of the McD lagereis where the melts are toiling in forced labour sweatshops... all a load of bollox of course but one of the joys of being a space-cadet is the capability of spending more time in your imagination than you do in grim-ass reality!
Sometimes I worry this next election is the last chance for many of us*, won't even be able to look when that next GE exit poll is announced.
* probably sounds a panicky and hyperbolic but idk...
― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
the horse is my union
― ogmor, Monday, 12 August 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
I'll admit this isn't quite how I pictured it:
https://exploringyourmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/nietzsche-and-horse.jpg
― pomenitul, Monday, 12 August 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
Looking at this and I like it over here:
Today in Hong Kong a protest against police violence completely shut down an international airport. This is extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/yt5MOUpVhe— automnia (@aut_omnia) August 12, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 August 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
ctrl + f “abolition of london” not found
― im led by donky (||||||||), Monday, 12 August 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
XR were planning to shut down Gatwick with drones at one point but seem to have thought better of it.
Good to see Diane Abbott criticising stop and search as a policy, particularly when Lou Haigh has been Well Actuallying Priti Patel on whether the new police powers are strong enough and questioning why we aren't building more prisons.
― ShariVari, Monday, 12 August 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
xp easy on, Jordan Peterson, I’ve got some nice shiny callipers to distract you in that thread over there
― gyac, Monday, 12 August 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
there was someone very good on R4 yesterday talking about the history of s+s turning police into an occupying force and being counterproductive and pointing out that stop + search had a 5 % success rate last time out and the bbc presenter countered with some quote from a right wing think tank about it being a popular policy with the great british public etc.. unbelievable level of scrutiny.
― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
10,000 new prison places, £2.5B
did you see the george clark thing on channel 4 last week about council housing? 10,000 council house places would probably do more for the crime stats than 10k prison places.
> some quote from a right wing think tank about it being a popular policy with the great british public etc..
just listening to radio from yesterday and they did that thing that they do too often - *reported* that dianne abbott had said something about stop and search followed by *actual audio* of p.patel saying that the victims want it. which has more impact?
― koogs, Monday, 12 August 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
yeah. diane abbott is extremely available for quotes ime
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 August 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
rewind 5 yearshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27224887Police stop and search powers in England and Wales are to be overhauled with a revised code of conduct, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.She told MPs an inquiry had found 27% of searches may have been illegal.
and to get an idea of where we're probably headinghttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/11/boris-johnson-plan-to-tackle-gang-rejected-by-two-of-three-pilot-councils
― nashwan, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
aiui almost all searches would be illegal if it wasn’t for the post 7/7 laws allowing police to search anyone they like within the vicinity of certain areas / structures without reason.
― ShariVari, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
The gist is that police need one of three things:
a) reasonable suspicion b) consentc) anti-terrorism powers to be in effect
The traditional model was to scare people into giving consent, now that’s less necessary. The idea that police are primarily focusing on people they have reason to believe may have committed a crime has never been true. It has always been an absolute abuse of authority.
― ShariVari, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
iirc this is also why a lot of immigration enforcement fishing trips happen at tube stations - it’s somwhere you can racially profile / interrogate members of the public under no suspicion of wrongdoing.
― ShariVari, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
did you see the george clark thing on channel 4 last week about council housing?
yeah, this was really good actually - went much further in outright attacking capitalism as the root cause of the problem than i thought it would, although sadly he stopped short of calling for fully-automated luxury gay space communism
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 August 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
ot but lol
Um #scottishtwitter pic.twitter.com/Ajgq5KMcPz— Laura Waddell (@lauraewaddell) August 12, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 12 August 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
it’s not even true! yr teeth are all formed in your skull before you’re born! THEY’RE THE EXACT SAME AGE AS YER NIPPLES DANNY YA ROCKET
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 August 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
what's more: http://cdn.yourarticlelibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/clip_image002213.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 12 August 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
PRECISELY
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 August 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
Lads, it's for the good of the community, lads
― pharma chameleon (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
Did someone call for an all-female cabinet? pic.twitter.com/eLRa5Uvbde— Young Conservatives (@Young_Tories) August 12, 2019
― im led by donky (||||||||), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
slay queens
It's almost as if intersectionality isn't a thing
― uptown too tanking (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
yeah, this was really good actually
I watched it assuming to be irritated and expecting him to start gushing about "ammmmazzzzing spaces" but damn him he did a good job.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
The fact that it was on at all suggests a changing of public attitudes, you'd never have had something like that on Channel 4 even five or six years ago.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
back then Cameron in his pre-pigfucking reveal and brexit defeat pomp, could say out loud that council houses are just petri dishes for labour voters.
― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
FYI George Clarke lives very near the Grenfell Tower site. Nice to see him taking action; guessing the idea started the production process just after the fire.
― suzy, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
― uptown too tanking (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:42 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
its been so lonely
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 12 August 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
The trip to Austria and their attitude to social housing was o_O. A little view of how things could be.
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
had a comprehensively depressing dream last night that Tories won an increased majority in a General Election, due to “liberal disarray and the boris bounce”. i’m hoping my mental tea leaves are themselves disordered - the front page splash the next day, in which i was asked my opinion, was a picture of the Tory’s Signourney Weaver lookalike leader and the headline “Working Girl?”. Obv neither boris bounce nor the conspicous lack of melanie griffith quite fit with that so am hoping something’s got jammed in the works somewhere.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
some of it also seemed to take place in rome idk
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:03 (four years ago) link
yeah but what was your opinion?that headline would 100% happen
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:18 (four years ago) link
Adonis defines remainism as a revolt of the middle class – and that is why he believes that, in the end, Brexit won’t happen. “The English middle class, deeply alarmed, will be heard and will win,” he told me. “That’s my whole experience of politics.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/13/brexit-remain-radicalisation-fbpe-peoples-vote
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:28 (four years ago) link
That emoji though
Can UKIP's new leader @richardbraine explain why he's apparently wearing an Augusto Pinochet t shirt in this photo with @missalicegrant pic.twitter.com/GORJ2Axogw— Otto English (@Otto_English) August 11, 2019
They wouldn't have chosen him if he wasn't a fascist. Every single Ukip leader has been a very serious racist.The same is true of the Brexit Party.— Mibble Mobble Ming (@MibbleMing) August 12, 2019
I promise you I'm not a fascist! 🤣— Richard Braine (@richardbraine) August 12, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
Steve Deacon, a protester I met on a People’s Vote march earlier this year, was at Glastonbury festival when he heard the referendum result. Before then, he had felt that “the world had been marching forward, and things were getting better incrementally”. But since that day, it no longer seems that way to him.
what a shame for the bairn
― uptown top tanking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
yeah but what /was/ your opinion?that headline would 100% happen
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:46 (four years ago) link
the Tory’s Signourney Weaver lookalike leader
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 07:06 (four years ago) link
by all means demonstrate pls
im poachable
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 07:07 (four years ago) link
― koogs, Tuesday
I haven't seen the program, but I was skim reading something about social housing in Vienna and Rotterdam a couple months ago. Just a short piece and I don't recall where, so may have this wrong but I think Vienna (and Rotterdam) are(were?) held up as paragons of social housing? And even in the soviet times, there was a lot more social housing there than in Bucharest, Sofia, Budapest and Zagreb
― anvil, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 07:11 (four years ago) link
I don't like posting things I can't readily back up, will see if I can find the piece later today in case I'm misremembering
― anvil, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 07:12 (four years ago) link
I also had some vague election content in the middle of a slew of fucked up dreams, SV said he was going out canvassing so fashtopia must have been bearing down upon us.
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 07:14 (four years ago) link
shswhdbsnejskejerb pic.twitter.com/t9MMnWCwY7— No One (@judeinlondon2) August 13, 2019
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 07:28 (four years ago) link
xxp
there was a piece in the graun last month about Berlin buying up 700 apartments (on Karl Marx Boulevard of course) and using them as social housing to combat rising rents/gentrification. you just know there would be talk of a Maoist anti-rightist terror campaign and the need for a military coup if that happened in London
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 07:45 (four years ago) link
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
I don't like posting things I can't readily back up
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 08:01 (four years ago) link
I've seen a handful of glowing descriptions of Austrian social housing, but that was from an American perspective where there's wonder that it exists at all.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_n_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 08:28 (four years ago) link
> had a comprehensively depressing dream last night that Tories won an increased majority in a General Election
the suggestions of him planning a GE for 1st november terrify me.
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link
Just after the clocks change
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 08:36 (four years ago) link
And even in the soviet times, there was a lot more social housing there than in Bucharest, Sofia, Budapest and Zagreb
I was going to say something about how maybe UK politicians might remember that looking after your own citizens dampens support for extremist parties, but that doesn't seem borne out by Austria's recent history.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 08:39 (four years ago) link