Petrol posted:

on a positive note, reflecting on how little has changed in the hardcore right line makes me think that while they may have found an effective scapegoat in islam to be used for propaganda and recruitment purposes, they haven't been able to adapt their core ideology very successfully to the times. the contenders to take over the great satan spot from the Elders of Zion are either 'globalists' a la infowars, which is basically the elders without zion, or SJWs/cucks/'cultural marxists' a la the so called alt-right, which is basically libertarianism without most of the economic posturing but with an added moral degeneracy angle. it's a freaking mess is what im trying to say.

I expect Chinese people will become an important scapegoat once the housing market explodes and millions of people are sleeping on asphalt

stegosaurus posted:

What's white anting

ah. i didn't realise that was Strayan slang. think termites.

most commonly used in politics in references to these sorts of situations where a leadership is systematically undermined from within because of factional shit. here i think it was most apparent around the time of the syria vote where, not coincidentally, it was benn who did the most over the top defiant grandstanding in response to corbyn's rejection of airstrikes. then there's all that antisemitism bullshit thats been eating away at left-wing members for the past few months, what's the bet that was largely being directed by rivals.

Petrol posted:

okay so, since benn got whacked, 7 resignations from the shadow cabinet so far

it's extremely helpful when all the traitors raise their hands to identify themselves and then leave of their own accord.

NicoNicoNihilist posted:

how many of those dont really care about brexit and were more concerned with stopping the blair war crimes investigation

Workers HATE him! One weird trick to avoid prosecution for crimes against humanity

Panopticon posted:

ilmdge posted:

you sure? i actually heard the opposite on this from another report
edit: https://twitter.com/GuardianAnushka/status/747028244034097152

i don't know for sure

as a law student *pushes glasses up nose, sniffles* the rules are pretty clear

i screencapped that from the legal advice leaked by the corbyn camp, which interprets this the same way i do: challengers to an incumbent require formal nomination with support of 20% of labour MPs. construing the rule to extend this requirement to the incumbent is absurd and goes against the clear intention of the rule, which is to ensure incumbents are not subject to formal challenges unless they meet a threshold of support substantially higher than if the position were empty.

that this issue was even raised smacks of desperation on the part of the blairites, whether they seriously believed they could keep him off the ballot on these grounds, or knew it was stupid but just wanted to muddy the waters

This picture has been all over twitter, promoted by every high level Blairite you can think of, from JK Rowling down. Yet all may not be what it seems.



But look again at that photo. The body language of everybody involved is somewhat strange.

That is because the lady on the right is Anna Phillips, full time employee of the Blairite pressure group Progress.

While the gentleman on the left is Lewis Parker, a professional “creative strategist and social media Guru”. Now if you wanted someone to think up a stunt like this and then get millions of people on social media to see it via J K Rowling etc, ask yourself this question. Of all the thousands of professions in this world, which profession is the precise profession whose major task is to invent and set up stunts like this one? Why, a “social media professional”. Is it not an amazing coincidence that one just happened to be going past, as Ms Anna Phillips has explained it, on the way to the pub?

And this only the day after every mainstream media outlet ran as headline news that Jeremy Corbyn was heckled at the Pride rally by a man who happened to see him, who amazingly happened to be another professional PR man, Tom Mauchline, who happens to work for the Blair/Alastair Campbell PR firm Portland Communications.

I really do find myself astonished by the sheer amount of happenstance in life. Of course it cannot possibly be more than happenstance. Otherwise it might be characterised as conspiracy theory.
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But what is Lewis Parker doing with his arm round the old gentleman’s neck like that? If this is truly a fake befriending, that is abuse of the elderly. If it really is his own T-shirt, then that embrace and the knowing smirks and pointing are really very unpleasant indeed. In contrast to Parker, who appears to have borrowed that haircut from an international footballer, and the smirking Anna Phillips, the elderly gentleman’s physical appearance raises to my eyes a few causes for concern about his condition, which I certainly hope are misguided.

And remember, a fake befriending, including physical contact, of an elderly and apparently vulnerable person, while making fun of him for social media, is Parker and Phillips’ own explanation of what is happening here. That is the best case. There are obvious worst explanations of the kind of set-up this is.

Shatnersrug
June 28, 2016 at 12:52
That t-shirt has been photoshopped – I saw her/he yesterday – I was standing next to her/he at one point -wasn’t sure if old lady or man then either – I absolutely promise the shirt didn’t say that, I’m hoping momentum members may have a photo to prove it.