How many here are believers?

[Grey Area]

Followers of Abrahamic religions should be chased into the fucking sea.

Why do you so hate the sea?

Got a mouthful of it at the beach once and it tasted like shit.

[Walkie]

Walkie, we are heading down the same path.

Well, thank the stars for your next sentence. I read Grey Area's post first, and thought for a minute  you were saying that we're all walking down the pretty cliff path  that ends in a mouthfull of shit.

 


Huh. Of course. Same difference. Silly me....except in the political case, we don;t have any choice but repeat the same journey and swallow the shit all over again, do we? 

[Grey Area]

Walkie, we are heading down the same path. The working class has fallen prey to right wing populism, and has abandoned left wing parties who at least make a token effort to represent their interests.

More like left wing parties abandoned the working class. If Labour doesn't become considerably more northern and working class before the next election, they're fucked.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Walkie, we are heading down the same path. The working class has fallen prey to right wing populism, and has abandoned left wing parties who at least make a token effort to represent their interests.

More like left wing parties abandoned the working class. If Labour doesn't become considerably more northern and working class before the next election, they're fucked.

Agree. It's basically the same in the US and Australia. Problem is that if they move even slightly to the left of centre the media goes bananas.

[Grey Area]

https://twitter.com/blue_labour/status/1205866120256856073

"A socialism which is economically radical and culturally conservative"

This has to be a prank. I mean, come on.

[Walkie]

https://twitter.com/blue_labour/status/1205866120256856073

"A socialism which is economically radical and culturally conservative"

This has to be a prank. I mean, come on.

well, blow me. i briefly checked out a few posts and they appeared to be sincere. I have no idea what they mean by "culturally conservative" though. That makes me  queasy. Welcomiing in the modern-day blackshirts, perhaps ? 

ofc,  i totally agree with ""economically radical", most especially in the light that common decency, sound common sense, priovision of decent social services, and the merest whiff of compassion for the underclass are all regarded as radically leftist in today's Britain.  Without "radical economic policies", we'll be rebuilding the Workhouses soon, and sticking a Nazi death camp next door.

We need the kind of party that built the NHS in the first place, not the kind of party that remorsely dismantles it and sells it off, piecemeal to the highest bidder. We all love the NHS (or rather we love our fading memory of what the NHS used to be, and our dreams of restoring it)  but, blow me, we still find that kind of thinking totally radical, FFS.

[Grey Area]

I have no idea what they mean by "culturally conservative" though.

It's a dogwhistle. It probably means they want to restrict the rights of religious and racial minorities and LGBT, but they're not yet in a strong enough position to say so in more direct terms.

[Walkie]

I have no idea what they mean by "culturally conservative" though.

It's a dogwhistle. It probably means they want to restrict the rights of religious and racial minorities and LGBT, but they're not yet in a strong enough position to say so in more direct terms.

Yeah. That's what my stomach said. *sigh *. Thanks for clarifying. (My brain is having a hard time catching up with this shit)
Nazi death camps next then?

[Grey Area]

Either Nazi or Maoist/Stalinist/Juche. Not that the colour of the guards' uniforms matters much when you're in a death camp lol