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Sat 13 Jun 2020 12:04

@MoatazAttallah clever! but no – first, they’re take-home exams answering specific questions, so they can’t just take an essay off the web, and the lecture notes are crucial, second, if they don’t copy the whole thing, it’s so easy to tell when the style totally changes

Sat 13 Jun 2020 12:01

@scottpsolomon it’s UK system, 50s to 70s, with occasional 80s for absolutely stellar work

Sat 13 Jun 2020 11:36

@OldManTypes actually the line was “the less you are likely to be paid for it” but you know, “the less likely you are to be paid for it” would be correct too, since half the value produced in our society is by unpaid, mostly women’s labour

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Sat 13 Jun 2020 11:30

@oonskie True. Anyway who isn’t complicated? Genghis Khan was a very complicated man too. He was very nice to some Buddhist monks. Fascist Franco refused to turn over Spanish Jews to Hitler…

Sat 13 Jun 2020 01:39

@davidwengrow it’s because writing it was so much fun. Don’t worry it’s just the preface to a trilogy. I wasn’t joking.

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Fri 12 Jun 2020 15:17

@dan_sabadas that’s not a mechanism that’s an assessment of “popular attitudes” – which is meaningless in this context. Put up or shut up. What is the actual scenario by which you are expecting BoJo will be removed from office despite his 80-seat majority before his term ends?

Fri 12 Jun 2020 15:09

@carra_the Churchill ordered the terror bombing and strafing of black civilians who had no idea they were supposed to be British subjects at all, for example in Sudan. Has BLM engaged in any such activities?

Fri 12 Jun 2020 15:01

@carra_the are you saying that dropping bombs on civilians from the air isn’t terrorism? If I’m not mistaken, Churchill referred to as “terror bombing.”

Fri 12 Jun 2020 14:59

@chriswicks hilarious. An entirely intentional “extremists of both sides are the same” gesture, trying to falsely claim the mantle of radicals for centrism, by dishonestly pretending those other statues are under threat. What an ass.

Fri 12 Jun 2020 14:58

@dan_sabadas whereas if the movement didn’t exist he’d be gone before his term ends? By what mechanism?

Fri 12 Jun 2020 12:24

@carra_the no, terrorists are people who try to terrify living humans, usually by trying to blow some up to scare the others. Churchill himself used such terror tactics (vs Nuer, Kurds, Bedouins) but no one in BLM is threatening to do anything to hurt a living person

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Fri 12 Jun 2020 12:09

@hamasinpitta First they came for the statues. Then they came for the police special weapons squads. Then they came for the private security forces. Then they came for the billions in trust funds and pedophile rings and there was no one left to stop them.

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Fri 12 Jun 2020 11:18

@MordechaiGabai @Sammy_Peeps Obviously not we’re talking policy. The idea of allying with Lib Dems is frankly insane. They ALWAYS fuck you

Fri 12 Jun 2020 00:52

@dominichills5 @FirstClassHack wow two misspellings of “occupy” in one sentence there are more different sorts of security forces in that part of Lower Manhattan, and better armed, than probably anywhere on earth. And actually we did do actions to disrupt Wall Street itself anyway.

Fri 12 Jun 2020 00:49

@writermonki by getting into the electoral process they meant raising money and bribing existing politicians like anyone else.

Fri 12 Jun 2020 00:40

@MordechaiGabai I’m totally fine with working with those running electoral campaigns if they respect the autonomy of the non-electoral left, don’t try to coopt us, & understand not doing so is to the benefit of both. Such people alas are rare.

Thu 11 Jun 2020 10:18

@FirstClassHack good – just not in the media. I just got so sick of hearing that word. I mean they were making students write essays on the topic “Occupy failed because….” It would be nice if this lasted more than a few weeks this time.

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 10:17

@AaronBergman18 Yeah Obama’s platform was about two hundred miles to the left from what he actually did. The platform in the US never means anything. In the UK it means a little. In the US no one even pretends.

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:37

@Sammy_Peeps they stopped like 87 different Tory initiatives and large parts of the Labour platform have been (without much fanfare) adopted by BoJo’s gov’t. For instance nationalising trains … it’s a very long story.

Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:35

@DanielFooksArt I know. They were calling him a Stalinist anyway every time he even suggested deselection. If you’ve done the time, why not do the crime?

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:32

@james_e_baldwin they definitely worked with those people, but only those working within an institutional framework & the “radicals” among them rejected movement-building outside of an electoral framework

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:28

@googumproduce “mobility” was the term they used for it during the American revolution. It ought to be brought back.

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