ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

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He’s done similar to me twice before, I just wanted to confirm it’s him before reporting this account as an alt too. The first name I knew him under was @Voight, so he’s obviously not super inventive with usernames.

Hey Voight, you made it to Vietnam yet? Or are you still here because I was right about them not wanting to be friends with you either?

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Deselect him if you feel strongly otherwise

PLP keep overriding the selection process around me to ignore local candidates or skip the process completely. If you want to be serious about politics in the current climate you need to be serious about inflicting permanent harm on politicians.

No, the generic you doesn’t have the history and context of “you people”, and even if it did, using “you people” to refer to groups that people choose to join (i.e the British Government) isn’t a problematic use. The whole point of "you people"being used against ethnic minorities is that it lumps people together as if their skin colour automatically means they follow specific ideologies. The point of an organisation like a government is that they are all working under the same ideology.

Generic you, as in institutions of British government, not specific you, as in Niel Basu.

he said: “To leave that lying around anywhere on foreign soil is the most unbelievably reckless disregard for human life I’ve ever witnessed.”

bro wait until you find out what you’ve been doing in the middle east

Action to stop e-bikes and scooters being ridden on pavements

So he’s gonna push investment in cycling infrastructure, right?

An end to ‘street scars’, where gaps in street paving are replaced with tarmac

Can’t wait to get to see where he gets the money to replace all the missing granite slabs around Leeds, never mind whatever expensive materials other cities were originally built with

A “galvanising” national goal to reduce the amount of litter

So he’s going to push installing more public bins, right?

Councils to sort dumping of fridges, mattresses and broken cars

They… they do. Like you have to request it but they’ll send a truck round to collect them.

Action to stop phone boxes and street furniture being covered in graffiti

Oh come the fuck on, the graffiti is the only decoration we have left.

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Ok, why aren’t the papers already full of those stories then? Old people die all the time. If the stories are guaranteed regardless of the governments actions, why are you bothered about the optics at all? They’re going to be the same no matter what.

Are you honestly proposing that an increase in cold related deaths beyond expected levels during a cold snap is more likely to be explained by thousands of OAP’s just happening to forget to turn the heating on, rather than them not being able to afford it?

people just don’t forgive or forget easily (especially if there is a cold snap and the papers fill with stories of pensioners dying because they can’t afford to turn the heating on).

This is a really sketchy phrasing of “if Labour cuts kill pensioners”. People remember when government policies kill their family members, it’s not just a matter of optics.

I just want to be absolutely clear here, to make sure that you fully understand the question, because your answer suggests you don’t: It’s not couple of weeks a year, it’s just a couple of weeks, right at the start, and it’s not a holiday, you have to look after the baby at its most helpless during those extra weeks of leave. Are you sure that you consider a few extra weeks of looking after a child to be worth 18 years of looking after the child? Like I’m not doing a silly hypothetical where I ask if you consider yourself more or less likely to consider having a child in future, I am asking you, personally, if you will be having a child and raising it should men recieve more paternal leave.

Would you honestly take on at least 18 years of responsibility for another human being in exchange for a couple of weeks off work? Do you seriously consider that an incentive?

Israel has been in open breach of the 3rd Geneva convention since 1948. Nothing they’ve done has been legal under international law.

Right, so uni fees don’t need raising, they need funding given back.

domestic undergraduate fees remaining frozen since 2012

Not untrue, but they like tripled or quadrupled fees a few years before then, so I’m pretty sure it still accounts for inflation.

Your position is based on your assumption that unionists in northern Ireland are representative of Irish people rather than English people, despite an ongoing race war over their englishness. Catholic and protestant communities are still walled off from each other to maintain the relative peace. The idea that imperialism and colonialism are some unimportant detail of the past is preposterous, they’re ongoing issues that make up the core of northern Irish politics.

You don’t belong here, reactionary. Would you tell First Nations Americans that the white Europeans occupying their lands are real Americans, representative of them? Do you tell Palestinians that their occupiers are Palestinians?

Like I don’t understand why you’d bring such an obviously ignorant take to the table - do you genuinely know nothing of why it’s Ireland and Northern Ireland? Do you know nothing of the Troubles? Do you think the violence and ethnoreligious lines just disappeared when the good Friday agreement was signed? Do you not know about them because your education was inexpensive?