[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reminds me of the time that Disney had to send round a memo ordering their staff to stop referring to the studio as 'Mauschwitz' on social media. The staff complied, changing the name to 'Duckau'.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

https://archive.is/H6lVf

Site has got a shitty cookie control page that has no means of saving your decisions

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

"I'd like to give them some fucking stimulus."

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

If you want to insure yourself against capital flight go for a Land Value Tax. Let 'em shove a hectare of land in their luggage.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 43 points 3 months ago

OK so it's time to say the quiet part out loud: the reason that governments have so far held off on taxing billionaires at 1% or 2% is the fear that they might spend 2% or 3% against those governments in revenge.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

General Zod: I like the globe...

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago

What ever happened to him?

Well, he pulled it on Rorschach, and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft.

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submitted 3 months ago by Spendrill@lemm.ee to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

Seriously, did they just go down the Westminster Jobcentre?

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

the ability of professional journalists to locate these specimens.

Heave half a brick out of window and you'll hit one.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Well that was more entertaining than I thought it would be.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

What happens when a Tory learns about empathy?

Cognitive dissonance.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Only way I can imagine Suella chasing a trans voter is with a cricket bat.

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submitted 3 months ago by Spendrill@lemm.ee to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

This gave me a big belly laugh:

Another Conservative said: “The answer is we need to find a way to appeal to voters we lost to all parties. I don’t know how you do that on policy, but Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious. But I don’t know if any of the candidates we have at the moment can do that.”

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

The butter won't make him fat but the pasta will.

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Turns out they're capitalists too...

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To them it's hilarious that all of our suffering was caused by someone else praying for it.

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A former Conservative MP has asked to be removed from an award-winning academic's research presented in a TEDx Talk that connects her to a slave-owning ancestor

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