Marxism2k15

Sci-fi is cool. Death metal is great. Under communism we'll all be best mates.

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Fire Minister was among 72 Tory landlords who voted against making homes “fit for human habitation”

Theresa May’s new Police and Fire Minister, Nick Hurd, was among the 72 Tory MPs – who are also residential landlords – that voted against a motion to make homes “fit for human habitation.” Many people have been reposting articles about the debate in Parliament last January in light of today’s tragedy at Grenfell Tower. Labour submitted an amendment […]

they’re all scum

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Theresa May leaves church by side door to chants of 'coward'

Theresa May has left a church in north Kensington being used as a support hub for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire through a side door to chants of "coward". The Prime Minister had been meeting survivors of the blaze, after she was accused of failing to show "humility" when she refused to meet residents during a visit the day before. Witnesses reported Ms May being bundled into a car by police amid "fury from the pushing crowd", less than an hour after protests erupted outside Kensington town hall close by. More follows...

Absolute scenes

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The government is on its arse

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Defend Pop Punk Army in Way Over Their Heads in Syria

Members of the popular “Defend Pop Punk Army” Facebook group got more than they bargained for in visiting the war-ravaged city of Raqqa.

lmao

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when in doubt, just make the same jokes again

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young voters! get registered with this lit new book! 

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1944 - Snowball the cat tries to take over a machine gun in Normandy so she can shoot some Nazis herself.

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Blessed post. Good kitty

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i want someone to read that headline in an old timey reporter voice

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[lesbianrey]

optimistic liberal reformist college freshman luke who believes the jedi order can be rebuilt once again if we all follow the light side this time

vs

radicalized anarcho-marxist retired professor luke who knows that reform won’t solve the problem that jedi ideology is fundamentally broken and will continue to repeat a cycle of boom and bust

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is it just me, or

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“The source of totalitarianism is a dogmatic attachment to the official word: the lack of laughter, of ironic detachment. An excessive commitment to Good may in itself become the greatest Evil: real Evil is any kind of fanatical dogmatism, especially exerted in the name of supreme Good… I only know one truth: it’s time for the Jedi to end.” - Luke Skywalker

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cocainesocialist : the un had only just announced their inquest into tory human rights abusees wrt benefit cuts when reeves said they'd be tougher too

Yeah it was fresh news. Also personal gripe about all the twee Milibae shite being horrendous

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I’ve been of voting age for the 2010 and 2015 elections. I voted Labour in 2010 out of reluctance and outright hatred for the Tories and didn’t vote in 2015 because Labour were on the Diet Tory election model.

June 8th will be the first election for me with a genuine left wing candidate, it will be for a lot of people.  There’s a surge waiting to happen here, about 40% of the public don’t vote after all, and a lot of that isn’t because of apathy.

I’m not a social democrat but like the EU referendum, this is about pragmatism, there’s more at stake here. Corbyn at this point stands for disenfranchised people, and with what the Tories are doing it literally is a life or death decision for a lot of people. Just proper hope Labour win.

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Imagine if you and everyone else had voted for Ed Miliband. We wouldn’t even be in this mess. What’s Tory-lite mean? 

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Shite like that. And Rachel Reeves as shadow DWP secretary saying Labour will be tougher than Tories on benefits at a time the UN were looking into human rights violations in our benefits system.

And we would be in this mess. Ed Miliband’s Labour was the stumbling corpse of what was left of New Labour and austerity would have continued, and people would still be dying.

Freedom of movement and guaranteed welfare for all should be the bare minimum for any leftist movement, and Ed Miliband didn’t back them.

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I’ve been of voting age for the 2010 and 2015 elections. I voted Labour in 2010 out of reluctance and outright hatred for the Tories and didn’t vote in 2015 because Labour were on the Diet Tory election model.

June 8th will be the first election for me with a genuine left wing candidate, it will be for a lot of people.  There’s a surge waiting to happen here, about 40% of the public don’t vote after all, and a lot of that isn’t because of apathy.

I’m not a social democrat but like the EU referendum, this is about pragmatism, there’s more at stake here. Corbyn at this point stands for disenfranchised people, and with what the Tories are doing it literally is a life or death decision for a lot of people. Just proper hope Labour win.

[cocainesocialist]

i hope the queen is dead

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Imagine how much happier we’d all be right now

[cocainesocialist]

general election time. time to try and make liberals not prefer fascism to mild social democracy

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[frookie]

Football has become middle class, claims Andy McLaren

Former Dundee United winger Andy McLaren fears that Scottish working class children are being priced out of playing football.

“We’re not getting the same kids from the same areas. Growing up in Castlemilk I genuinely can’t remember paying for football. Maybe it was 10 pence or you sold a football card now and again.

“People are struggling out there. We started eight years ago and very quickly we’d see young people with holes in their shoes and things like that.

"Some would turn up for camps with no packed lunch. Very quickly we learned we had to feed them because the coaches were having to give them their lunches.

"People will go to me, ‘it’s the parents’ fault’ but people out there are struggling with mental health issues or addiction issues.

"I think we’re easy in this country to blame people. If you see someone struggling it’s our job to help the less fortunate.

"As a society, I think we can do a lot more.

"Areas we work in are areas of high deprivation, the top 5% of every poverty chart you can get.

"If we charged £1 we wouldn’t have the same success because the money is not there.”

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It’s true that a lot of footballers that grew up going to games couldn’t afford to go now, and probably wouldn’t have got into football. Not many people can afford £7/1000 a season ticket to see Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham… A single ticket that costs £125. Clubs go after affluent fans now because that’s where the money is. They’re the ones that shell out. It’s a crisis