General Election, December 2019

[ursus arctos]

You just don't understand "Owning the Libs" culture.

It is what primarily animates close to a third of the US electorate at the moment.

[Lucy Waterman]

It's bog standard bullying tactics, and if you ignore it they have nowhere else to go.

[Hot Pepsi]

The Ignore Poster option is available, folks.

I tried that but it didn't work. Does it take a little while?

[Snake Plissken]

I assume it takes a few minutes.

[Diable Rouge]

I tried that but it didn't work. Does it take a little while?

Given he only posts once every few months, hardly worth the effort?

[Hot Pepsi]

Why you'd want to celebrate the election of a racist, lying Government that will undoubtedly have a bad impact on members of your family for years to come, LukeR, is beyond me - but you do you...

This is how "whiteness" works, apparently. People are so afraid that somebody that doesn't look like them might get something "for free" that they'll take down their own family and/or community to prevent that.

That's not an original thought. I just read it in a book review in Sojourners. Now I can't find it. But it sounds true.

[Hot Pepsi]

Given he only posts once every few months, hardly worth the effort?

It's the principle.

[Guy Profumo]

Which are you most proud of Luke?

Abolishing the right to strike or voter suppression?

[Guy Profumo]

And now it's a politically appointed judiciary that's being mooted

[Guy Profumo]

Or abolishing protection for child refugees?

[Hot Pepsi]

And now it's a politically appointed judiciary that's being mooted

How does it work now? I really don't know.

Politically appointed judges seem like a bad idea, but not as bad as regularly elected judges. What is the alternative? My first thought is that the Bar should pick the judges and then the judges could elect the judges for the higher court, with some mechanism for the voters to recall them if they really go off the rails. But that could go very wrong too.

[Eggchaser]

"Get Brexit Done"

Much like Trump, the big distraction out front will cover for the heinous shit that's going on in the back rooms.

[Sporting]

And now it's a politically appointed judiciary that's being mooted

Given the traditional independence of the legal system in the UK, I wonder if some kind of judges' strike/work-to-rule or other actions would be possible or indeed supported by judges at all levels?

[Antepli Ejderha]

The Ignore Poster option is available, folks.

I'm really sorry to say this Snake but could you not ban him?

[Wouter D]

Based on? Gloating? Having abject opinions? Doesn't seem enough to me. I don't like the dude much either, but banning sounds like one step too far.

[Sporting]

Agree

[DCI Harry Batt]

Can I make a plea, please, for people not to quote at length from his posts? It kind of makes the "ignore poster" function a bit pointless. Ta.

[Lucy Waterman]

He’d love to be banned.

[Snake Plissken]

Every so often I think about putting up posts explaining my thought processes on stuff like this, and then I remember that that will never end well. Always happy to explain via PM (or over a pint one day).

[Lucy Waterman]

Haha. Think your instincts on that are sound, and as ever thanks for your largely thankless task.

[Hot Pepsi]

Yes, thanks for that.

I did think his post was more than just disagreement and ventured into personal abuse. We don't have to accept that. But given that we have the IP function, I'd error on the side of leniance.

[Satchmo Distel]

This is how "whiteness" works, apparently. People are so afraid that somebody that doesn't look like them might get something "for free" that they'll take down their own family and/or community to prevent that.

That's not an original thought. I just read it in a book review in Sojourners. Now I can't find it. But it sounds true.

This:

https://sojo.net/magazine/november-2...essed-ideology

[Hot Pepsi]

YES! I couldn't find that for some reason - not that I tried very hard. Thanks.

As Nadia Bolz-Weber, another progressive Christian, is fond of saying "We all want to know who we're better than." So many people can't stand the idea of somebody else getting something "they don't deserve." And, sadly, so many of these people call themselves "Christian" even though one of the central messages of the New Testament is that grace is the exact opposite of "getting what we deserve."

[anton pulisov]

Media was reporting in days just before election that pound was rising due to prospect of Tory victory (even though polls were narrowing at the time). Since the election, the pound has gone into freefall. Not a pup out of the media about it.

[Lang Spoon]

Brexit has highlighted that even the shiteness of RTE is streets ahead of the fuckin BBC equivalent. They are a fuckin disgrace.