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[OnlyRegret]

Since Brexit is pretty much confirmed to be happening at this point, I don't fancy being in England when it all goes south. Plus I'll bet another recession will be on the way over the next few years to really help things along.
Will be looking at emigrating somewhere else. Have to find a place where the political right haven't ruined everything though.

How old are you? If you're young, have a degree and no dependants then go teach English in Asia.

Early 30s. No dependents at the moment. Thats a good idea.

 

[BIONIC]

Asia, the last bastion of progressivism 

These dumb fucking cunts

[benjipwns]

Would you buy an old, used kleenex?

no kink shame

[clothedmacuser]

Since Brexit is pretty much confirmed to be happening at this point, I don't fancy being in England when it all goes south. Plus I'll bet another recession will be on the way over the next few years to really help things along.
Will be looking at emigrating somewhere else. Have to find a place where the political right haven't ruined everything though.

How old are you? If you're young, have a degree and no dependants then go teach English in Asia.

Early 30s. No dependents at the moment. Thats a good idea.

I saw things while finding this image.  My third eye is open now.

 

[nudemacusers]

I know so many people who had a 30s life crisis and moved to Asia to teach English. All it did was pause their “career” for several years.

[benjipwns]

>Be in your 30's
>Spend years of your life gaining proficiency in two languages
>Cut off everyone and move to Asia
mfw OP ends up entering an extremely socially/economically/politically conservative environment in which his primary identity is "Other"
 

don't assume

[benjipwns]

I think my favorite part of reading the meltdowns is I don't know what's typos and what's modern British online slang:

People are going to die and people don't care.

I'm almost hoping for random acts of political violence because there's no other way rich cunts in the political class will pay for the people they murder.

I think the natural response for anybody who isn't literally evil in the UK right now is for them to hope their region [becomes] a part of Scotland.

I just got done making this point in the Bernie thread, but it's applicable here, too. It's going to take a lot more time and a lot more hard losses to convince people to actually vote their best interests, and for the best interests of their fellow people

Honestly I feel like selfishness is at the root of this. Labour come out with all these socially beneficial policies, and the thing is most people just don't care. They're out for number 1.

There is nothing more sneering, down the nose and cretinous than people trying to police how other people feel.

There is no coming back from this. I can't say bunker down with your family and get through the next 5 years.

Shut up you prat. I'll say what I please and act how I see fit. This country is a fucking disgrace.

People are going to suffer.

People are going to die.

You cannot claim ignorance about this. You made a decision, and that decision is going to have unthinkable consequences.

You can fuck right off. 130,000+ people dying for this shit and you have the audacity to come in here like a condescending prick. Go fuck yourself you vile cunt

I thought, after people saw Hillary losing to Trump in 2016, that this kind of thing could never happen in the UK.

Shit is going to continue to get worse before it gets better, if it ever does really get better, that is

Cunts coming in here acting like politics is a game. Get to fuck.

I'll say it again fuck England. And politics isn't a fucking game, people are dying. You don't give a shit because you're comfortable.

white people showed they don't care about bigots

Millions of white people also voted for progressive politics up and down the country.

Not nearly enough, the people voting Tories didn't give a shit about bigotry. It just shows how bad the UK is.

People will die as a result of this ya cunt.

Anybody who finds any aspect of this “hilarious” can go fuck themselves in all honesty.

I’ve got to go to my decidedly right-wing barbers this evening. Wondering how to escape with my dignity and hair in tact.

[benjipwns]

We'll never see the Russian interference report.

ahhh comfy

[Bore Expert]

Pretty entertaining that cerium learned absolutely nothing from evilore’s mistakes.

Somewhere out there on Burbon street, beseda is chortling

[benjipwns]

why are they all even "shocked into anger/disappointment" about this, the polls have said for the entire year that the Tories would win a landslide, like every single one

it's not like when Trump amazingly nearly ran the table on swing states (thanks to a few Facebook ads sent to Hillary supporters), the seat and vote shares are coming in almost perfectly with projections over all of the last month

look at this chart!

[Momo]

Pretty entertaining that cerium learned absolutely nothing from evilore’s mistakes.

Somewhere out there on Burbon street, beseda is chortling

on bourbon alley, feeling low, just because she let him go, I don't think he even knows he'll never be fine

[Momo]

I think my favorite part of reading the meltdowns is I don't know what's typos and what's modern British online slang:

People are going to die and people don't care.

I'm almost hoping for random acts of political violence because there's no other way rich cunts in the political class will pay for the people they murder.

I think the natural response for anybody who isn't literally evil in the UK right now is for them to hope their region [becomes] a part of Scotland.

I just got done making this point in the Bernie thread, but it's applicable here, too. It's going to take a lot more time and a lot more hard losses to convince people to actually vote their best interests, and for the best interests of their fellow people

Honestly I feel like selfishness is at the root of this. Labour come out with all these socially beneficial policies, and the thing is most people just don't care. They're out for number 1.

There is nothing more sneering, down the nose and cretinous than people trying to police how other people feel.

There is no coming back from this. I can't say bunker down with your family and get through the next 5 years.

Shut up you prat. I'll say what I please and act how I see fit. This country is a fucking disgrace.

People are going to suffer.

People are going to die.

You cannot claim ignorance about this. You made a decision, and that decision is going to have unthinkable consequences.

You can fuck right off. 130,000+ people dying for this shit and you have the audacity to come in here like a condescending prick. Go fuck yourself you vile cunt

I thought, after people saw Hillary losing to Trump in 2016, that this kind of thing could never happen in the UK.

Shit is going to continue to get worse before it gets better, if it ever does really get better, that is

Cunts coming in here acting like politics is a game. Get to fuck.

I'll say it again fuck England. And politics isn't a fucking game, people are dying. You don't give a shit because you're comfortable.

white people showed they don't care about bigots

Millions of white people also voted for progressive politics up and down the country.

Not nearly enough, the people voting Tories didn't give a shit about bigotry. It just shows how bad the UK is.

People will die as a result of this ya cunt.

Anybody who finds any aspect of this “hilarious” can go fuck themselves in all honesty.

I’ve got to go to my decidedly right-wing barbers this evening. Wondering how to escape with my dignity and hair in tact.

imagine having the IQ of any of these posters, surprised they dont kill themselves toasting their bread in the morning.

[Boredfrom]

why are they all even "shocked into anger/disappointment" about this, the polls have said for the entire year that the Tories would win a landslide, like every single one

it's not like when Trump amazingly nearly ran the table on swing states (thanks to a few Facebook ads sent to Hillary supporters), the seat and vote shares are coming in almost perfectly with projections over all of the last month

look at this chart!
(Image removed from quote.)

I think they expected something like when May lost her majority.

[Momo]

why are they all even "shocked into anger/disappointment" about this, the polls have said for the entire year that the Tories would win a landslide, like every single one

it's not like when Trump amazingly nearly ran the table on swing states (thanks to a few Facebook ads sent to Hillary supporters), the seat and vote shares are coming in almost perfectly with projections over all of the last month

look at this chart!
(Image removed from quote.)

[benjipwns]

I think they expected something like when May lost her majority.

Now I only have a Masters in Political Science but I think I see a different sort of what do you call it where lines go in different directions happening:

[stufte]

Im not up on the politics of the UK, why do they keep saying people are going to die (130,000 ) because of this?

[benjipwns]

Im not up on the politics of the UK, why do they keep saying people are going to die (130,000 ) because of this?

The population of the UK is getting older and eventually dying off, much as it did during the last nine years of Tory government. A Corbyn government would have reintroduced immortality.

[EchoRin]

Im not up on the politics of the UK, why do they keep saying people are going to die (130,000 ) because of this?

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-did-austerity-kill-120000-people

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-storm-austerity-behind-130000-deaths-uk-ippr-report

[benjipwns]

This is the most important part:

The study’s authors estimated that there were nearly 45,000 more deaths in the years 2012 to 2014 than would have been predicted by earlier mortality trends.

They then extrapolated those figures to cover the period 2010 to 2017, which yields the estimated 120,000 “excess deaths.”

We were unable to analyse specific causes of death as outcomes because there were differences in how causes of death in 2001–2010 and 2010 onwards were coded.

And:

During the 1990s and 2000s there was a continuous decline in deaths attributable to an underlying risk factor in the UK. This progress stopped in 2012. If it had been maintained over 130,000 such deaths could have been avoided in the intervening years.

Preventable ill-health is caused by a complex mix of personal behaviours such as diet, smoking and drinking alcohol, as well as the wider social context such as poverty levels, housing and the environment.

Here's proof of the Tory Crime btw:

Per capita medical spending slowed – but still increased – during this time. Government spending was higher under Conservative Theresa May than Labourite Tony Blair in total dollars, inflation-adjusted dollars, and percentage of GDP.

[benjipwns]

Waking up to despair. Partner is a nurse in the NHS and we can't move away from where we are due to her father's illness. Looking to start a family end of next year. Feel absolutely fucked. Stuck on some small shithole rock full of angry old cunts willing to cut off every appendage they have to avoid seeing someone that isn't white.

Also look forward to a bright future of tory rags emboldened to spew more transphobia from their pages/articles over the coming decade+. Woo the 2020's... more like roll on the 2030's when we might actually start to see some bright clouds again.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-general-election-12th-december-2019-ot1-hindsight-is-20-19-tory-majority-confirmed.151404/post-27357871

Not as big a defeat as expected, but this is fucking awful. We've had years of a Tory Government that has lied, cheated and done some of the most disgusting shit in recent political history. Windrush, Austerity, Attempting to dismantle parts of our democracy. Yet people still wants this fucks running the government.

I've given up. This one. This is the one that breaks me. What is even the point in trying to save this country when most of it has decided to jump off s cliff. I'm not even angry anymore, I'm just so disappointed. What more do the Tories need to do, to fuck the country and its people before they realise how fucking idiotic we're being done. I need to leave, I need to find a job in Canada and get out.

[benjipwns]

hey guyz what's going on in the safe space
https://www.resetera.com/threads/socialism-ot-the-dawn-of-a-red-era.585/post-27319744

Let’s see what corbyn can do to salvage those motherfuckers from themselves...

Goddammit

The UK is a failed state.

How on fucking Earth!?

Nothing good will ever happen

FUCK ELECTORALISM.

FUCK THIS FUCKING PLANET!!!!!

My only consolation about this century of dread is that the rich who steered us here will be made to suffer and account for it.

It's a fucking travesty Corbyn got Corporate Media'd so effectively.

I hate this fucking country. Full of fucking idiots.

Seriously considering moving.

Well, I had a good cry. I didn't even cry over the Trump election. But it's just getting to me. We cannot get any real left-wingers in power.

We have to figure out a way to mobilize the people besides just the booths.

I cried when Bill Shorten lost lol. Imagine if one good thing, even a slightly good thing, happened.

poor sphagnum, the rest of the forum aren't sending their best

[BisMarckie]

lol at people getting banned for admitting to have voted for the torys British Union of Fascists.

Can’t wait for elections in Germany and CDU voters to get banned for supporting bigotry.

[benjipwns]

My dream would be Wales kicking the English retirees out and forming a new union with Scotland and Northern Ireland,

Pretty sure by British tradition this would require some kind of ineffective skirmish in a swamp somewhere.

[benjipwns]

They also banned a guy for saying he voted Liberal Democrat.

[BisMarckie]

Little known fact: According to exit polls, single issue Tory voters were mostly concerned with acephobia and enbypobia

[benjipwns]

I sympathize with all UK'ers who didn't want this shit happening.

IMO, maybe everyone in the UK who hates this needs to start a revolution against their government like the citizens of Hong Kong & South Korea did, or move to either Northern Ireland or Scotland. It'll be the only way to send a message that corrupted, right-wing bullshit won't be tolerated.

[BisMarckie]

They also banned a guy for saying he voted Liberal Democrat.

Throwing your vote away on joke parties is a right people died for. 

[benjipwns]

I don't even want to begin to digest this horror right now. Thanks to everybody here, it's been a trip. I'm going to get wasted and do a Ghibli marathon for the next couple of days. Peace.

[benjipwns]

I'm just numb to this. It's basically tradition by now that I wake up and find out that people somewhere in the world were asked "Should normal people or cartoon villains run your country?" and somehow they had a really hard time with the question.

Why do I even pay attention to politics and world news, it's literally only misery, 100% of the time.

[benjipwns]

So, what I'm coming down on is: If you voted Tory, you are dead to me. You are an un-person. In the abstract, I still want and will still fight for an improvement to your material conditions, but in the concrete fuck you and I will not acknowledge you as human.

[benjipwns]

I cried myself to sleep last night and now I regret waking up again.

[BisMarckie]

IT‘S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL BORIS AND HIS ACEPHOBIC MODS MOBS WILL ROAM THE STREETS

[SmokyDave]

I won't pretend to be happy with the election results, but what did these fuckwits think was going to happen if Labour won? All was going to be well and we'd all agree on a simple and happy path forward?

I'm betting most of those whinging drama queens didn't even vote.

I'd type more but a tory has just taken my keyboard, and used it to batter an orphan to death. Now there's goo on some of the keys and it's making me nauseous.

Edit: Also, thanks for curating all this shit Benji, there's no way I could face actually reading a full thread of that pathetic flailing.

[Propagandhim]

So, what I'm coming down on is: If you voted Tory, you are dead to me. You are an un-person. In the abstract, I still want and will still fight for an improvement to your material conditions, but in the concrete fuck you and I will not acknowledge you as human.

Suspicions confirmed: Nearly half of Brits aren't human.

[BisMarckie]

Save some laughs for her when she's in troubled times. I know she's your mother, but she needs raw pain in the same way she's cool with giving it to others. That's the only way these Boomers learn, and even then they'll pull some exceptionalist "but why me" boohoo theatrics.

Appalling to see people shoot themselves in the foot when they claim they're shooting away the """""dangerous""""" people.

Normal, well adjusted people.

[BisMarckie]

I also like it when resetera talks about ‚boomers‘. it sounds like rebellious teens talking about their parents.
But everyone there is 35 years old.

[jorma]

I sympathize with all UK'ers who didn't want this shit happening.

IMO, maybe everyone in the UK who hates this needs to start a revolution against their government like the citizens of Hong Kong & South Korea did, or move to either Northern Ireland or Scotland. It'll be the only way to send a message that corrupted, right-wing bullshit won't be tolerated.

English isn't my first language, so this "inflammatory commentary" that gets you banned on ree is a bit confusing to me, because it obviously means something other than what i originally thought.

[benjipwns]

I had a good cry earlier but I'm ready to fight now.

UK ERA, I'm just an American, but I want to help. Solidarity to all UK citizens who wanted no part of this shitshow. Whatever I can do to help, I will. We can't let these fucks win.

[Propagandhim]

I had a good cry earlier but I'm ready to fight now.

UK ERA, I'm just an American, but I want to help. Solidarity to all UK citizens who wanted no part of this shitshow. Whatever I can do to help, I will. We can't let these fucks win.

But they just won.  By a landslide.  Crying at another country's election. 

[BisMarckie]

I also cried when the conservatives in San Marino won the election.

[benjipwns]

what did these fuckwits think was going to happen if Labour won?

We have enough wealth to have things like free lifetime education and free broadband.

Can’t wait till we have some form of universal income as well instead of the awful pension and benefit system.

Also no more landlords.

[BisMarckie]

Clearly resetera, Hitler wasn‘t able to form a sentence that coherent in Mein Kampf.

[benjipwns]

If you look the other way when presented with a racist candidate, you're a racist in my book.

[NekoFever]

I'm a Remainer who voted Labour (though not usually a Labour supporter) so I'm bitterly disappointed about the result, but come the fuck on. No one's getting murdered. We'll weather five years of shit and then vote against them in 2024 when Tories start being Tories.

I'm now hoping that Labour pick a competent, likeable, electable leader, so I can vote for them without holding my nose, but who am I kidding? The party members will decide it's all Tony Blair's fault and they need to go lefter.

I thought, after people saw Hillary losing to Trump in 2016, that this kind of thing could never happen in the UK.

The Brexit vote was before Trump's election 

Trump literally brought Nigel Farage on stage and said his election would be "Brexit +++".

[HaughtyFrank]

User Banned (Duration Pending): Supporting bigotry

Really goes to show how much we live in our bubbles. None of my friends of family would dream of voting Tory. The online spaces I patronise are the same. People on here think I'm right-wing ffs. And yet clearly most of the country feels completely differently.

I'm a Conservative voter but I try and read a wide variety of sources for news to avoid this problem. I post and read here, on 4chan, The Telegraph, The Guardian, FT, The Times, and The Independent. I'm sure I'm in the minority on this site and that's fine by me, but engaging and reading a wide range of opinions, often times going out of my "comfort zone" has certainly helped my world view and opened my eyes to issues I may have glossed over before.

"I'm a conservative voter" gets you banned? 

[NekoFever]

"I'm a conservative voter" gets you banned? 

Are you surprised? They frequently bait out Republicans with the promise of an open discussion and then dogpile and ban them.

[benjipwns]

English isn't my first language, so this "inflammatory commentary" that gets you banned on ree is a bit confusing to me, because it obviously means something other than what i originally thought.

Here are some more examples to assist you:

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory commentary in a sensitive thread

The Conservative Party is not facist.

What is wrong with you people? Read up on real facist parties and movements which you all are seriously downplaying If you really believe that the Tories are facists.

User Banned (1 Month): Inflammatory commentary

I have been feeling bad for the people in the UK, but it's wasted concern. It's a self-inflicted wound they got three years ago and then just keep digging in so hard, it's ridiculous. Honestly, at this point, the Brits probably deserve everything bad that will be happening to the majority of them, and it's hilarious how rich their new PM is gonna get with all the shady deals he will be setting up with the vultures heading in to feast (US, Russia, and China). Godspeed, Scotland, get out whenever you can.

[benjipwns]

Gonna unsubscribe from this thread and take a break from reading the news for a bit I think, til the new year maybe.

Going to focus on what I can do as an individual to improve things for now, maybe look into helping charities more with donations and volunteering.

[Ghoul]

funny story, so at work we did a toy collection for the salvation army, and you'll never guess what happened next, one of the more liberal members of staff (she's bi) went and complained
because of them being anti LGBT when asked if they'd like to do something different, they said no, but you guys should had not done the toy drive and done what I said "clothes for the homeless instead"
So basically, fuck you for doing a nice thing for kids who are in need, but am I fuck going to do something myself for a cause I believe in.

LMAO

[benjipwns]

okay I figured out part of the "shock" that confused me: earlier in the thread they had hyped themselves up because "turnout was up" with lots of Twitter shots of long lines, and speculation about the number of youths, and also somebody tweeted that if you adjusted one of the polls to have a higher Labour turnout it showed a tie rather than 10 point Tory lead which was good news thanks to the huge turnout, also they spent pages telling all kinds of stories about how packed and excited everyone was for Labour everywhere they went to vote

and now it turns out that turnout was down from the last two elections

[benjipwns]

funny story, so at work we did a toy collection for the salvation army, and you'll never guess what happened next, one of the more liberal members of staff (she's bi) went and complained
because of them being anti LGBT when asked if they'd like to do something different, they said no, but you guys should had not done the toy drive and done what I said "clothes for the homeless instead"
So basically, fuck you for doing a nice thing for kids who are in need, but am I fuck going to do something myself for a cause I believe in.

LMAO

The Salvation Army also collects clothes for the homeless. Happy to help.

[Propagandhim]

okay I figured out part of the "shock" that confused me: earlier in the thread they had hyped themselves up because "turnout was up" with lots of Twitter shots of long lines, and speculation about the number of youths, and also somebody tweeted that if you adjusted one of the polls to have a higher Labour turnout it showed a tie rather than 10 point Tory lead which was good news thanks to the huge turnout, also they spent pages telling all kinds of stories about how packed and excited everyone was for Labour everywhere they went to vote

and now it turns out that turnout was down from the last two elections

But my Twitter timeline was full of the same people saying the same shit.  How can this be?

[BisMarckie]

okay I figured out part of the "shock" that confused me: earlier in the thread they had hyped themselves up because "turnout was up" with lots of Twitter shots of long lines, and speculation about the number of youths, and also somebody tweeted that if you adjusted one of the polls to have a higher Labour turnout it showed a tie rather than 10 point Tory lead which was good news thanks to the huge turnout, also they spent pages telling all kinds of stories about how packed and excited everyone was for Labour everywhere they went to vote

and now it turns out that turnout was down from the last two elections

Most people still haven‘t figured out that twitter is not an indicator of the real world.
It is the same in marketing, everyone talks about social media engagement and all that jazz and wonders why their stuff didn‘t sell even after they got a million likes on twitter.

[Ghoul]

Also the way twitter works basically you curate your own nation basically and only follow what you want to see, so from that it would appear that the world is working out for you.
I mean you block the baddies that have a different view to you and you only follow, like and Retweet what you and your followers want to see.
So whenever something happens aka a national thing like an election you then have only the facts*






fact that you created within your little safe echo chamber*

[benjipwns]

that Michelle Obama thread is wild, especially when the one dude says if another talked to him in ALL CAPS in real life he'd wreck their shit

but this oddity is interesting:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/michelle-obama-on-her-bond-with-george-w-bush-our-values-are-the-same.158751/post-27307833

User Banned (Duration Pending): Inflammatory Trolling; Prior Severe Bans for Rationalizing Discrimination and Bigotry

Wouldn't every US president in our lifetime be considered a War Criminal? Ironically not Trump if my math is right?

The guy has no ban or even a warning ever logged by the bot before before this one:
https://resetera.kiwifarms.net/search/actioned?u=Soapbox%20Killer

found this: https://www.resetera.com/threads/dozens-at-facebook-unite-to-challenge-its-%E2%80%98intolerant%E2%80%99-liberal-culture.65433/post-12089767

User Banned (1 Week): Rationalising discrimination and bigotry.

You do NOT understand me correctly.


First I am not a Muslim and I'm not telling anyone what they can or can not do. What I am pointing out is the religion itself says no, not me and it doesn't matter what I may think but I have to be tolerant and accepting of a culture or religions rights to do what they believe to be right (within reason) and I think the left has a problem with that. Look man I'm not trying to be anyone's judge and I'm damn sure no bigot I'm just trying to listen. I'm a black man and Lord knows I have my own problems in a system designed to oppress and keep me tandem to poverty for generations.

Maybe my example was bad, forgive me it made sense in my head.

OH WAIT, username change...
https://resetera.kiwifarms.net/search/actioned?u=Soapbox+Killer+Returns

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing LGBT Representation as an Agenda; Prior Severe Ban for Rationalizing Bigotry

Thank God. I'm so sick of agenda.

[BisMarckie]

Corbyn was the only politician I've ever believed. I still believe in him, even though his career is over. I don't blame him for this loss, he did the best anyone could.

Him?

[BisMarckie]

i think labour scare-mongering so much in the election about the NHS has been an extra disaster as it’s completely failed as an electoral strategy but has succeeded in making a lot of labour voters very scared and anxious

worth pointing out that the tory manifesto really does commit to a lot of extra NHS spending for the future, unlike osborne and hammond, the costs of extra privatisation are stupid but relatively small compared to the billions going in (like under new labour where they spent so much it didn’t matter that pfi was inefficient) and the stuff about trump just means extra pharmaceutical down the line costs not selling off the nhs entirely. by 2024 the nhs will probably be in better state than now.

That’s gonna be a ban I think.

[Momo]

[Ghoul]

Ubisoft about to get cancelled Look how mad LewieP is!

https://twitter.com/LewieP/status/1205444582609244160