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A question about responses to the deaths of public figures:

If the current UK PM had perished of Covid-19 in 2020, how would you have reacted, eg on ILX?

the pinefox, Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:09 (three years ago) link

xp ha! is that the same person! maybe this isn't the right thread for a 1000-word rant about the horrors I and my family have personally seen / experienced from the CCP.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:11 (three years ago) link

xp 8 days' uncontrollable mirth

It’s transparent AOC & ‘the squad’ are the means by which they want to keep people invested in the current system. She’s not a socialist - she’s a capitalist imperialist with some social democratic tendencies (which she’ll likely drop) & it’s dishonest to portray her otherwise.

— Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) December 23, 2020

this is a very instructive deep-dive

imago, Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:12 (three years ago) link

not entirely sure that our esteemed unright comrade and *llday are the same person but

imago, Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:13 (three years ago) link

by "deep dive" you mean "saying absolutely nothing of consequence in three twitter posts"?

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:16 (three years ago) link

no i'm the one doing a deep-dive!

imago, Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:19 (three years ago) link

oh right.

anyway I don't think it's the same person, I remember talking to L on here about how stupid it is that some on the left rush to become stans of authoritative regimes, of which this is the prime example on twitter.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link

seems a lot more in the vein of the ostrander comics,

A question about responses to the deaths of public figures:

If the current UK PM had perished of Covid-19 in 2020, how would you have reacted, eg on ILX?


stop making me think about living in a better world ffs

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:23 (three years ago) link

lol at abandoned post remnant at the start of that

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 April 2021 08:24 (three years ago) link

I'm not louis allday. those posts above are true enough given certain definitions but the kind of socialism he prefers is less of a break from social-democratic-capitalist-imperialism than he wants us to believe. he blocked me on twitter some time ago, possibly for calling the CCP capitalist or something

new display name (Left), Saturday, 10 April 2021 09:50 (three years ago) link

I'm not louis allday.


sounds like something louis allday would say tbh

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 April 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link

left isn't anywhere near to being a tankie wtf

strident does not automatically mean "loves the Chinese government"

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:06 (three years ago) link

https://media.s-bol.com/J6Z7ZGw90XKK/550x718.jpg

commiserations on having to experience the dry run for the queen’s death

luckily we have our left-leaning daily newspaper over here to remind us that “Phil the Greek” was universally loved for being a cheeky fellow.

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:07 (three years ago) link

Im not louis allday im louis for the 8-4 shift

your own personal qanon (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:09 (three years ago) link

I mean just look at this

Billboards in London showing pictures of Prince Philip. Christ. pic.twitter.com/SeLaMHzaVf

— REDDEAN (@MarxistDean) April 9, 2021

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:19 (three years ago) link

pure dystopia

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:21 (three years ago) link

no i'm the one doing a deep-dive!

― imago, Saturday, 10 April 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Better luck next time.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:32 (three years ago) link

xps

tankie is thrown around way too freely these days so here's a useful guide

tankies: louis allday, xi jinping, vladimir putin, henry kissinger

not tankies: me, AOC, chinese maoists, donald trump (maybe)

new display name (Left), Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link

polling time!

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link

I can report there are no Royal tributes in the Kurdish food shops on Green Lanes, at least not as yet.

you've seen 'em given on a rainy tuesday night in stoke (Matt #2), Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:32 (three years ago) link

itt: tankie policing

you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:39 (three years ago) link

More blank than tank

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link

there is this gold-standard flag-fucker down the road from me with a big union jack hoisted to a proper fucking flag pole of the type you'd see on govt buildings or outside an embassy, none of this b+q shit! I was passing earlier and noticed it isn't even at half mast. I might attempt a citizen's arrest on them later.

calzino, Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link

All the bus stops with electronic advertising hoardings in Glasgow town centre this morning had a Phil memorial notice. I genuinely have no idea how people here feel about the 'Duke of Edinburgh', but it seemed a bit arselicking to me.

Ward Fowler, Saturday, 10 April 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link

I don't think they're any fonder of him in Edinburgh!

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 10 April 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link

Good job there won't be any fans at Celtic Park today for the minute's silence.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link

Jookie Embra, RIP Big Man

mahb, Saturday, 10 April 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 45% (+4)
LAB: 36% (-1)
LDEM: 6% (-)
GRN: 4% (-1)

via @OpiniumResearch, 08 - 09 Apr
Chgs. w/ 26 Mar

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) April 10, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 April 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link

Might start watching Line of Duty, like my fellow leftists

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 April 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link

Greetings, fellow leftists

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 April 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link

that psycho rogue armed cop in season 3 who drinks still mineral water in the pub, bullies his subordinates and executes a suspect cause he felt like it - well yeah Kieth would have definitely had his back!

calzino, Saturday, 10 April 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link

TBF he had a troubled past.

the pinefox, Saturday, 10 April 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link

aye it was a tough and troubling existence growing up a devout socialist in the tory heartlands of Surrey and attending a middling to above average posh grammar school with Norman Cook!

calzino, Saturday, 10 April 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyrISqXW8AIZlUo?format=jpg&name=medium

at least Kieth's "vapid response" game is progressive. By the time the Queen kicks the bucket he'll in be in there at least an hour before the Tories with a gushing boilerplate obit.

calzino, Sunday, 11 April 2021 07:02 (three years ago) link

"TBF he had a troubled past."

I think the first ep of season 3 is as far as I've got so far, will finish off that season at some point.

calzino, Sunday, 11 April 2021 07:28 (three years ago) link

Can't see Queenie popping off before about 2027 myself, by which time Starmer will be a footnote anyway most likely.

it's popol vu all over again (Matt #2), Sunday, 11 April 2021 08:33 (three years ago) link

Better not, Line of Duty's on at 2100

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 April 2021 08:46 (three years ago) link

Lillibet might need to be reminded it is would be a very commendable last selfless act of public service by her to put off that descent into a self-destructive death-spiral of boozing and chemsex addiction, at least until Line of Duty Season 6 has finished.

calzino, Sunday, 11 April 2021 09:14 (three years ago) link

You never know, the Queen might die of a broken heart... aye, right.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 April 2021 09:28 (three years ago) link

What a brilliant idea of universal free broadband giving everybody equal access to communication and information. My information is that it is very popular.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 10, 2021

༼ ºل͟º ༽

calzino, Sunday, 11 April 2021 10:14 (three years ago) link

look if the Windsors had a shred of decency they'd keep dying off after the other in short order until we get a day off

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 April 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link

of course

Asked if he would describe Meghan Markle’s treatment in the mainstream press as “racist”, Keir Starmer says “I wouldn’t.” pic.twitter.com/sLzo9nFoQe

— Liam Young (@liamyoung) April 11, 2021

nashwan, Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link

that sounds like something a racist would say

Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link

i want bad things to happen to this man

new display name (Left), Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link

Who was doing the asking, anyone?

Mark G, Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link

public service broadcaster giving the paedo a platform to eulogise the racist. fuck britain

new display name (Left), Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link

legally approved ethnic cleansing. details worse than the headline. fuck britain x2

A tribunal has ruled that a Filipino woman & her 2 sons can be evicted for having a "less durable connection with the area" than her landlord's daughter, who's moving in.

Yep, they really said the quiet part out loud.

My exclusive for @novaramedia: https://t.co/Dnvbt96s3M

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) April 11, 2021

new display name (Left), Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link

b-b-b-but some landlords are really nice people it's only 99.9% of them that confirm they are an enemy class scum of the earth that need wiping out.

calzino, Monday, 12 April 2021 06:20 (three years ago) link

another "politically homeless" person

Can’t live in council housing because the waiting list is 14 years. Cant rent private housing because they don’t accept people on universal credit . Cool

— 💯 (@wank_666) April 10, 2021

calzino, Monday, 12 April 2021 06:21 (three years ago) link

Lol I wondered why Labour weren't making that much of a fuss about it. https://t.co/ZA61CxDO2I

— Lex Greensleaze (@misslucyp) April 11, 2021

a very constructive and forensic lol!

calzino, Monday, 12 April 2021 07:47 (three years ago) link


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