ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

My opinion is that the probability of life developing on another planet, advancing to interstellar travel, and being physically close enough to us to visit us during the last few million years is so implausibly tiny that anyone seriously asking about their relations with human beings can be safely dismissed as a complete rube.

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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.

The capitalists don’t want you to know this but they actually are. I volunteer with an international peace education organisation that creates little month long communes that teach kids from 8-10 countries about diversity and intercultural communication and cooperation and all that shit, and they’re just the best. I can work twenty eight 16+ hour days on the trot teaching and looking after the little shits and still feel good afterwards, when usually I can barely make it through a 40 hour week, almost entirely because the communal nature offloads so many of the tedious little tasks of atomised life. Something as simple as having someone else always in charge of makings meals frees up so much mental capacity.

Society should be centrally organised around creating communes of 50-100 people that work together towards a single project, with options to move around if you fancy working with new people. Childcare communes, steelwork communes, farming communes, IT support communes, all communes, all the time.

So people give me weird looks when I say things like “everyone should have their kids taken immediately after birth to be raised in the childcare communes”, but when an “anthropologist” says it it’s all right huh

Rutte spoke in Brussels after a high-level South Korean delegation, including top intelligence and military officials as well as senior diplomats, briefed the alliance’s 32 national ambassadors at Nato headquarters.

The South Koreans showed no evidence of North Korean troops in Kursk, according to European officials who were present for the 90-minute exchange

Smells like Saddam’s WMD’s all of a sudden.

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

People love to talk about self reliance without thinking about it too hard - you’re not on your own, you’re entirely dependent on cooperating with others for your way of life. You did not builld you house, your car, your clothes, your bed. You did not grow your food, you did not mine the oil in your plastic products, nor refine it into them. You do not generate the electricity that powers your home and devices, you did not build the generator or infrastructure that brings power to you. Even the smallest things - the cutlery you use to eat, the soap you wash with, the bed you sleep on - were made by others for your use.

Self reliance is a capitalist myth that’s inherently disproven by modern civilisation.

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.

You mean people have repeatedly pointed out you don’t hold the values of the person you named yourself after? Should that not prompt at least a little introspection?

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It was the United States which pioneered the idea of the modern mail system

The UK had a general post office that deliverd to individuals over 100 years before the USA was founded. The US postal system is based on the UK one that delivered their mail before the US’s founding. Why on earth would you think the US pioneered it?

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