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Flintlock@flintlock.bsky.social |
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Galloway out. Party for Women got a derisory vote. Alba lost all their deposits. Even in sheer electoral terms, can politicians now accept that transphobia is the preserve of a handful of loud weirdos, not a vote winner?
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I think the real unremarked story of the general election is how the UK is gradually turning from a two (three at a stretch) party system to a multi party one, despite having an electoral system that is going to break if this continues.
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Picked up my first ever copy of Runequest in GW. The support in early White Dwarf was really good as well.
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I am finding it quite funny how right wing social media have just discovered the unfairness of FPTP overnight.
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Reckon we're going to end up with less than that after some of them defect to Reform as well.
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Dear BBC Scotland, I pay my license fee and in exchange I expect at least some close up shots of Alex Salmond crying at his shit party's humilation. I don't think that's unreasonable.
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Also a Red Action suggestion. ;)
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This is by far the most effective way of stopping people going to the right, not humoring racism. A lot of the left don't seem to get that with the kind of people the right want to recruit appearing weak and wishy washy about your views is going to make the right appeal more not less.
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Their big problem is that they've had several major crisises recently and haven't done everything they'd said they would. I vote for them in GEs (partly because Blackman is really strong on trans rights) but I'm a very critical supporter.
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People online seem frequently not to get that counter recruitment is about stopping people going to the right in the first place. Defectors are incredibly rare and each case of that is unique.
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I think a *significant* part of that is that the Scottish parliament doesn't use FPTP. (I'm not a massive fan of the list system and would rather have proper PR, but it's definitely a step forward).
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SNP in crisis and Alba still can't pick up a significant number of their votes. Hahahahaha, fuck off now cunts.
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In the spirit of cultural unity, I give you this comment from a young Tory a few years ago.
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I like simulation but I'm increasingly "why worry about this in a RPG when I can play a historical wargame instead". I'm no sure even the best simulation based RPGs can do it as well as a format. (Whereas genre emulation I like).
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I mean yeah, but in this case I think this is also true of a lot of longform articles, blog posts etc. I will admit freely this is at least me partly being a grumpy old grog. (Don't even get me started on the difference between FKR and Free Kriegsspiel)
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As a concept I think it's really important for a certain time of game. It's the appearance of reality because actual full on simulation becomes increasingly unplayable. But I think that nuance of meaning is lost in most discussions that use it currently.
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I have had incredible success with Advanced Fighting Fantasy, both for complete newbies and people who've only played 5e.
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Roleplayers should be banned from taking terms from wargame circles until we can figure out what's going wrong.
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Honestly, just don't throw shit about and make sure you get on ok with the cats and ghosts and me can happily coexist. You want to rattle a few chains or make blood drip from the walls? That's cool.
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Without downloading new pics what is it like dating you?
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And Labour have just failed to answer Pink News' questions directly, something even the fucking Tories managed. Too busy writing editorials in the Daily Mail I guess.
www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/03/k...
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I'm less worried about the age gap stuff (a bit skeevy but whatever) then I am about the fact she was an employee. Real power imbalance issue there.
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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪
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The bartender says "sorry, we don't serve faster than light particles here." Two tachyons walk into a bar. The punchline comes before the joke You know what the worst thing about time travel jokes is?
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You could do absolutely fantastic procedural solo stuff with this concept as well.
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Centrists are now praising this article as a model forward - tinyurl.com/y6c989jb
An extract:
"Poland’s progressives refrained from remarks that PiS could have used against the entire opposition. They largely steered clear of criticizing the virulent racism of PiS’s anti-refugee stance "
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It would be bad enough if Labour were embracing transphobia for electoral reasons, but all the polling shows it's just not an issue of interest to most voters. This is them having the chance to do the right thing with no political risk and choosing to fuck over trans people anyway.
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Don’t vote Labour. Tell your friends. Tell your family. If they have any consideration for you as a trans person, as a person at all, tell them that they should not vote Labour: www.thenational.scot/news/2442494...
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I'd go as far as to say we've known this to be the effect of a Labour government at least since the rise of the BNP in the 90s.
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This chart shows why we need to be ready to hit the ground running when the inevitable backlash against a Labour goverment comes. (Because if the left don't appeal to disillusionment with Labour, the far right will be more than happy to step into the breach).
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www.gmhousingaction.com/fighting-to-...
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I like RPPR (Roleplaying Public Radio) a lot and they do a good variety of RPG APs.
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Also uncomfortably close to society pretending families like mine don't exist. Of course I admire my mum's relationship. Her wife is an absolutely fantastic person and I take them as a model for "growing old together" with my partner.
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More in the "don't care if you're voting or not" series: What I *really* want people to prepare for is that going by history, under a Labour government, we are going to be dealing with a resurgent far right far nastier than Reform. And they will capitalise on a lack of a left alternative to Labour.
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We are at a point where if we (cis people) are serious about supporting trans people we are going to need to start organising physical defence of trans women's right to use women's only spaces. (Under the direction of trans women, not substitutionism).
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There is indeed no history of physical force antifascism to draw lessons from. Voting or talking about guillotines online. Those are indeed the only political tactics that have ever existed and can ever exist.
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Anyway, if you're really interested in how the left can be rebuilt I highly recommend the Left Luggage strategy blog. (Depressing though it is to be recommending a blog that last updated in 2009).
theleftluggage.wordpress.com
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It doesn't even make sense in narrow electoralist brain terms. "I wish you to change this policy and if you do not I want to make it clear I will carry on unconditionally giving you my vote". Utterly incoherent.
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The real issue I think with the tactical voting argument is it starts and ends there. Vote Labour to "get the tories out". I assume do the same next election to "keep the tories out". No ambition, no plan, no acknowlegement that social change is needed.
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My position on GURPS (and I've said this before) is that I massively respect it without wanting to play it. It's a hyperfocused design that knows what it wants to achieve and I like that in a game. It's just not currently where I am in terms of what I want from a RPG.
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It does also feel like those of us arguing against lesser evilism are expected to have a fully worked through 12 point plan on how to achieve our political goals while people arguing that we can pressure Labour to act better get away with being much shorter on detail.
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No, we capitalise on the current anti politics feeling, try and build resistance movements outside and against Labour and put pressure through militant direct action against MPs as individuals. Is it going to work? Maybe not. But I can't help but observe voting Labour hasn't either.
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Really though, I don't blame people who feel they have to vote Labour and I don't blame people who feel unable to vote Labour. I'm more interested in how we can build resistance to whichever government's in power. (And we start by looking at what politicians react most negatively to).
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Setting is great and has some interesting updates to 2e. They've completely replaced the ultra clunky system with an entirely new ultra clunky system.
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The only *possible* exception I can think of is if it's an anti cop game and you play cops as bad people and I think that would be hard to do well.
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As people are posting how they're voting, I'm voting for Kirsty Blackman (SNP). Normally I'd be self indulgent and vote Green or be REALLY self indulgent and vote TUSC. But several trans comrades have said the stakes are too high this time round and it feels right to defer to their judgement.
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I think we're at a point where it doesn't matter if Starmer *personally* is transphobic or not. He's objectively a transphobe.
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Also, their candidate signed that letter about "cultural Marxism" in the National Trust.
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Honestly, I think there is no better sign of the weakness of the UK anarchist movement that there hasn't been a big "don't vote" campaign at a time where that could actually have an impact.
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They're called the "True and Fair Party" which is something straight out of Chris Morris.
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You also get responses ranging from incomprehension to fury if you dare to mention the possibility of building resistance *against* a Labour goverment.
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