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politics thread more like lolitics thread

l0l, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

lol nice pun.

ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

well where are you

acoleuthic, Sunday, 10 October 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link

lol Oxbridge graduate is Left Wing lol

It would have been better with burger sauce (aldo), Sunday, 10 October 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link

go fuck yourself

acoleuthic, Sunday, 10 October 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

oh hey so the archbishop of canterbury is guest-editing the new statesman

an actual guy talking in an actual rhythm (history mayne), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link

btw i accidentally listened to the moral maze the other day and heard claire fox, i think she might be the worst person alive.

ledge, Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link

as to the revive, i could normally give a shit about these entitled oafs weighing in with their antediluvian opinions. but, archbish otm.

ledge, Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link

xp i have not heard her, but the lm/rcp/Inst of ideas/spiked nexus seems a collection of the worst people alive, so I am happy to agree.

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link

i guess he's otm b-b-b-ut it's the journal of thw webbs and atheism and um eugenics...

an actual guy talking in an actual rhythm (history mayne), Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link

webbs haven't been pulling their weight lately tho

portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

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woof, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 11:36 (nine years ago) link

XD

verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link

"Constantly being asked to have an opinion"

coign of wantage (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link

reading up about NO2EU led me down a bit of a Communist Party of Britain wormhole this morning

maybe it's the bourgeois running dog in me but i don't think that secret agendas are a good thing

coign of wantage (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link

bbbbut how will ILX's entryist UKIP campaign proceed without a hidden agenda?

Angkor Waht (Neil S), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link

few pints of real ale, sling a couple of racial slurs around, nobody's checking credentials

coign of wantage (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link

not sure I'm ready to go under cover in that kind of environment

Angkor Waht (Neil S), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link

started to dig back into the SWP Comrade Delta shit-pile yesterday but realised I shouldn't go too far at work. Didn't see much new.

woof, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link

sorry, couldn't think of a better thread to post this awesome pic

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KKdfs2rYRew/U3xwFTNmzFI/AAAAAAAAd50/wJkbWmT4lRM/s1600/brannan.png

Mordy, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link

five months pass...

verso keep bringing it with the email updates

woof, Thursday, 30 October 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link

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woof, Thursday, 30 October 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PxCWwu5kQ

The Falun Gong Show (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 October 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link

I stayed with a really nice lady recently, who has the Morning Star delivered every day and is a passionate supporter of Palestine. I enjoyed our conversations but some of what she said veered close to anti-semitism. I had heard about this characteristic but it was the first time I had met someone from the 'far left' that made me wonder about this (Im only counting actual people as i dont watch television or read newspapers)

anvil, Thursday, 30 October 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link

on my phone but lux aeterna mortua est

pecker shrivellage (imago), Thursday, 30 October 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link

some of what she said veered close to anti-semitism

People are way too forgiving of this shit imho

DG, Thursday, 30 October 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link

It was the use of the word Zionist that made me unsure where she was going to take the conversation. I couldnt tell if she was unconsciously using at as a codeword or not, partly as its the first time Ive heard a regular person use the word Zionist in a conversation (well, as regular as a 65 year old in a sweatshirt made of the palestinian flag can be, at least). But I put it here as it was the first time i'd encountered anything like this, having read that its something which exists in the left

anvil, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link

A guy in my work used it the other day, he's a Marxist btw

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link

Oh she's of that generation

worryingly these sentiments are also prevalent, admittedly with more reservations, among millennials

pecker shrivellage (imago), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link

I worry that the liberal resurgence in britian will lead not to the death of the right and the tussle of the progressives, but to the death of the left and the tussle of the free-marketeers. So let's not have any illusions about the danger to the left that comes from the liberals.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:45 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Times when being correct sucks, part 342374248

resting rich face (suzy), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link

the damn fellow promptly buggered off, leaving us all to founder

pecker shrivellage (imago), Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link

Oh she's of that generation

Yes, she spent a decade at Greenham Common!

anvil, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link

the first time i'd encountered anything like this, having read that its something which exists in the left

― anvil, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:16 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this doesn't so much exist within as throughout, going back through fabianism and so forth, only very latterly oriented around a hysterical preoccupation with international 'zionism'

difficult to say whether the selfconsciously retrograde morning star left is more or less antisemitic than more current versions

the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link

I am guessing you are still hanging about in Hebden Bridge anvil?

xelab, Friday, 31 October 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link


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