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So as far as I can work out Cummings is building skynet?
https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01...sorted-weirdos/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
And getting people to apply for government jobs to a Gmail account
Welcome to the 2020's
https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01...sorted-weirdos/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
And getting people to apply for government jobs to a Gmail account
Welcome to the 2020's
More food for thought about what the Labour defeat means from Paul Mason.
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This is going to happen, maybe the only use in pointing it out is to create a separate edia ecosystem for leftists.
The most ideal situation would be if Corbyn somehow was dead, otherwise he will weight down the left for a decade or so. I have no idea what RLB was thinking praising him. He is less popular than a paedophile. Momentum should hit him for incompetent leadership, he's too timid to hit back.
Pretty much.
It was silly to give him a 10/10 but at the same time, if she slags him off then the press would have just asked why the hell is she running on a similar platform. RLB answer was awful but there never a good one to give.
I'm not too worried about Corbyn weighing down the left or the labour party, Blair hasn't been involved in British politics for over a decade and there are still people who still won't vote Labour because of his time in office(These people are always right wingers who hated that immigration existed under New Labour). Anyone still hating Labour for Corbyn reasons, years after he left the position of leader is a lost cause.
"We have a popular platform, as polling and feedback tells us, but our leadership was unable to spread this message and instead fought the election on the opposition's terms."
I don't live there but uhhh I stare at a lot of polling and I think Corbyn hate is underestimated. Maybe 15 years later you can go to Corbyn videos and the comments will be like Tony Benn vids - "I'm a Tory but what a principled man", "the best PM we never had" while in reality, when he was active, Benn was despised.
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She did something somewhat similar in a Sky Interview this morning
She is also running in a leadership election where Corbyn won the last two massively, so I'm not sure how popular it would be with labour members to slag off Corbyn(Although knowing how bad Corbyn polls, there might be some polling showing Labour members now hate him).
No left wing politician running for PM will be liked by the public. If RLB wins the leadership race then I'm certain in the next election she will be going into it being massively disliked by the British public(The same applies to any labour leader who isn't related to the Murdoch Family).
Agree with all that, but no need to cling to him - makes their job easier. Fortunately she's too young to have had a position on Ireland when it was violent.
100% agree. I would say the Itv interview today was her first mistake.
RLB is a catholic so I'm still expecting the press to carry on with the whole labour party being pro I.R.A.(I'm still amazed the amount of anger Corbyn history with Irish republicanism caused, I remember one guy not voting Labour in this election due to Corbyn involvement with the Birmingham six). But overall her record is really clean.
the ira stuff did far more damage than anti-semitism. which confirms that it's thr right-wing press, not the centrists, and the less sophisticated online stuff (fb over twitter) that actually shape public opinion.
Is it PMQ's today...
going to be uncomfortable for corbyn I suspect (or will he hand it over to somebody else?)
going to be uncomfortable for corbyn I suspect (or will he hand it over to somebody else?)
Completely agree. There was a great example of this with the story about the Isis girl who wanted to come back to Britain, it was mainstream news on twitter and places like Sky News for about 24 hours and then the media moved onto Brexit. But it still doing massive numbers on Facebook.
There's one conversation the media is having(And actually places like this forum)and a completely different one the general public is having(Which tend to be more about far right culture wars stuff).
Found it
''I'm not voting for that bigot Farage'' - walks off to vote for Boris Johnson.
''I voted Conservative but I'm gutted when they won the election''
The Tories will be very happy if people like Paul Mason and those at Novara Media are front and centre of the Labour Party movement and thought.
UK defense secretary says his country can no longer rely on the US amid Trump-induced chaos
Trump is going to be confused now. We have oil and the nukes to excuse an attack but we're a predominantly Caucasian nation so he won't know if he wants to invade us or not.
"Greives Russia Report"
Peston continues his descent to Fox News levels.
They won't run down the NHS they said....
So of the small percentage (~3.5%) of visits to Guido that come from referrals, a moderate proportion of them come from two of the biggest news websites in the UK? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Poole 2019 election result - Tory Hold(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000881)
And..............
Poole Hospital's A&E to close as part of £147m NHS shake-up plans
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2...-to-close-as-part-of-147m-nhs-shake-up-plans/
Britain used protectionism and the physical elimination of competition through violence to rise to preeminence.
The total disparity in the manufacturing outputs of the metropole and its colonies would not have been possible without these restrictions, and it was only after a vast chasm had been established and industry in the colonies decimated that the policy switched to "free trade".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism#Great_Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ander-hamilton-history-biggest-protectionists
“the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
(if you don’t recognize the quote, its author might surprise you...)
i didnt, and i was.
i was half-expecting hitler, since this quote of his was for some reason in my notebooks alongside gandhi and nehru and churchill:
The idea of struggle is as old as life itself, for life is only preserved because other living things perish through struggle.... In this struggle, the stronger, the more able win, while the less able, the weak lose. Struggle is the father of all things. Only through struggle has man raised himself above the animal world. Even today it is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
fecking hell that's tone deaf. How ignorant to the effects of British colonialism do you have to be to openly flaunt that we used to be massive thieving wankers.
Trump threatened UK with 25% car tariffs unless it agreed to accuse Iran of breaking nuclear deal
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-nuclear-deal-france-germany-eu-a9286496.html
Special relationship
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-nuclear-deal-france-germany-eu-a9286496.html
Special relationship
That's a pretty useless quote, as far as quotes go. For me, a clear example that even very intelligent people can say very unintelligent things at times. Then the world latches on and repeats them ad nauseam.
I would agree the 'winning' of recent centuries wasn't due to values or religion, but it was very much to do with ideas, the technological progress, industrial revolution and the naval development necessary to project it.
If its a useless quote, it must be pretty easy to debunk, right ?
So...........
Aren't all of these things a form of organised violence ?
Genuine question here.
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All of them? No. Whilst war is a big driver of innovation it is not the only one, many discoveries and inventions weren't connected to the military at all, quite likely most of them, at least initially.
Wrong. Debunking something means proving something false. Which is different to saying something is useless.
The history of humanity is a history of domination through organised violence. The statement that the Westerners forget this is while other's don't, is of course, unsubstantiated. And judging by the fact that Western nations have been the most militarised in the world in all modern history, suggests that no one intelligent in the echelons of power is either forgetting or ignoring that.
And it obviously leaves unanswered the real question. Which is, why do certain nations prosper financially and technologically (prerequisites for dominating through war/violence) and others don't?
Ultimately, the quote is not offering any useful insight or profound truth. Those who are amazed by it, are probably the same kind of people as those who's social media accounts are a just collection of "inspirational" quotes.
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I was sort of viewing organised violence as more than the military, so the slave trade and colonialism were mass forms of organised violence or even industrialisation(Which in turn produces technological advancements) was a form of organised violence.
Firstly we are posting on a current events section on a football forum(both us have post counts in the thousands), the people who's social media accounts are just collection of "inspirational" quotes are far more better than us. We are somewhere between grandparents who spend all day on Qannon reddit and porn addicts.
But seriously the quote was used to reply to a video of a tory mp literally forgetting this history. No one was amazed by the quote or said it was a profound truth(Huntington clash of civilisations is a load of shite)but that it was somewhat interesting tit bit(Again considering the author its coming from).
Now go away scum.
The last part is a joke.
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It’s most interesting for its author (who is a little bit misunderstood in some circles IMO), but nobody’s suggesting it’s mind-blowing stuff, it just helps to understand the collective sighs which greet such ahistorical nonsense as what Boris spouted from large chunks of the globe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51149531
Francois really is one of those pricks who knows feck all yet assumes everyone else's job is as easy as his, isn't he?
Francois really is one of those pricks who knows feck all yet assumes everyone else's job is as easy as his, isn't he?