Tory Leadership contest 2022

[existentialist]

There is no forum royalty; they all died in a cellar and we have a forum politburo now.

I have a feeling that Urban would have taken a rather more proactive approach to the existence of "forum royalty". Axes would probably have been involved, pour encourager les autres.

 

[JimW]

I have a feeling that Urban would have taken a rather more proactive approach to the existence of "forum royalty". Axes would probably have been involved, pour encourager les autres.

Though of course we did keep the former Emperor of Knobbing and Sobbing alive and gave him a job in the Palace Museum.

 

[kabbes]

Have checked, the party they vote for was accused of using scab labour but nowhere was the poster called scab.

As for scum, that was aimed at the Tories. Again, the poster in question was not called scum.

The plot thickens and predictably unravels.

It’s just another example of a poster struggling with finding out that their political beliefs aren’t as “nice” as they had assumed. An attack on their belief (eg “the Green Party can be an agent of capital”, or “the Labour Party are not left wing”) is thereby interpreted as an attack on their person, since it is, in effect, a suggestion that they also are not “nice”. Psychological defences then kick in to protect their psyche from this cognitive dissonance. In this case, the resulting self-hate is projected outwards to the “attacking” party. In a word, they are butthurt.

 

[brogdale]

It’s just another example of a poster struggling with finding out that their political beliefs aren’t as “nice” as they had assumed. The attack on their belief (eg that the Green Party can be an agent of capital, or that the Labour Party are not left wing) is thereby interpreted as an attack on their person, since it is, in effect, a suggestion that they also are not “nice”. Psychological defences then kick in to protect their psyche from this cognitive dissonance. In this case, the resulting self-hate is projected outwards to the “attacking” party. In a word, they are butthurt.

Yep, loads of wanker cunts in the GP

 

[maomao]

Yep, loads of wanker cunts in the GP

It's mostly old people and mums with babies whenever I've been.

 

[Flavour]

Anyway back on topic I really hope Liz truss wins and gets immediately stuck in with insulting putin and revealing classified information during speeches like how often the the trident submarines pass through the Baltic Sea

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[andysays]

Look it up yourself. I’m just telling you the individuals involved are bully’s. I think you probably know that yourself, but because they’re forum royalty no-one complains. I don’t know or care who they are, so I’m very happy to call them what they are...

We don't have royalty here, mate, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune

 

[SpineyNorman]

It's mostly old people and mums with babies whenever I've been.

If you go to a GP meeting and nobody else looks like a wanker cunt it probably means it's you

 

[Anju]

Not directly to do with the leadership vote but a nice demonstration of anti Tory sentiment.

 

[two sheds]

Not directly to do with the leadership vote but a nice demonstration of anti Tory sentiment.

Heartwarming

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[agricola]

Don't know if anyone has been bored enough to do this, but the comments under a lot of the pro-Truss articles in the Mail do suggest she might not be as popular amongst the "grassroots" as claimed.

 

[JimW]

Don't know if anyone has been bored enough to do this, but the comments under a lot of the pro-Truss articles in the Mail do suggest she might not be as popular amongst the "grassroots" as claimed.

Russian bot farms running scared of her iron resolve?

 

[A380]

How do you think parties should choose their leader? Or more broadly, what system of democracy wouldn't have such flaws?

 

[agricola]

Russian bot farms running scared of her iron resolve?

Probably not, the "most popular" posts all seem to be long-established contributors. It also helps that what is being put out is manifestly absurd, eg:

‘There were 364 economists that objected to Mrs Thatcher’s plan, and what we are doing at the moment, the economic policy at the moment is not delivering the economic growth we need, and what people voted for across this country in 2016 when they voted Brexit and in 2019 when they voted for Boris, is they voted for change, they voted for us to do things differently, they wanted to see more enterprise, more opportunities.

‘People who voted Conservative for the first time in places like Teesside or West Yorkshire or across the North of England, they were voting for something different, not the same policy that had delivered low growth for 20 years.’

 

[maomao]

If you go to a GP meeting and nobody else looks like a wanker cunt it probably means it's you

I was trying to pun on GP as in doctors but it didn't work.

 

[stavros]

Don't know if anyone has been bored enough to do this, but the comments under a lot of the pro-Truss articles in the Mail do suggest she might not be as popular amongst the "grassroots" as claimed.

Do Tory members, rather than voters, read the Mail? The Telegraph, The Times and perhaps the FT seem more likely.

 

[kabbes]

I think you’ve got that the wrong way round

 

[Supine]

Yes, Prime Minister covered who reads the papers

 

[Calamity1971]

More of a Monday through to Sunday for me.

 

[wow]

I can't help wondering whether that poster "wow" is sitting back now, thinking "heheh, my work here is done".

No. I’m catching up with the thread. It confirms I was right to call Cat Fan’s bullying out.
Plus I understand the dynamic here a bit better as well.

 

[krtek a houby]

No. I’m catching up with the thread. It confirms I was right to call Cat Fan’s bullying out.
Plus I understand the dynamic here a bit better as well.

You're a liar

 

[Pickman's model]

No. I’m catching up with the thread. It confirms I was right to call Cat Fan’s bullying out.
Plus I understand the dynamic here a bit better as well.

I don't think cat fan was that much of a bully

 

[krtek a houby]

I don't think cat fan was that much of a bully

More of a bullshit merchant

 

[wow]

You're a liar

Show me where.

I don't think cat fan was that much of a bully

No. He/she/they admitted they felt bullied though. By you amongst others. I repeat my earlier question: are you OK with bullying?

 

[Pickman's model]

No. He/she/they admitted they felt bullied though. By you amongst others. I repeat my earlier question: are you OK with bullying?

Pls name the post you're referring to. E2a cat fan refers to me once in this thread and does not say what you say they said. As krtek a houby says you're a liar, tho you can redeem that reputation by apologising for your mistake here

 

[wow]

Pls name the post you're referring to. E2a cat fan refers to me once in this thread and does not say what you say they said. As krtek a houby says you're a liar, tho you can redeem that reputation by apologising for your mistake here

No. Do your own research.

Cat Fan mentioned several times in this thread that they felt bullied and harassed from the replies they were getting.

Cat Fan also said they have anxiety issues which might prevent them from standing up for themselves.

You were one of the contributors.

Just apologise directly to Cat Fan and we can all move on.

 

[Ax^]

No. I’m catching up with the thread. It confirms I was right to call Cat Fan’s bullying out.
Plus I understand the dynamic here a bit better as well.

12 days and as many post's

ooh sage of the internet explain the boards to us

 

[wow]

12 days and as many post's

ooh sage of the internet explain the boards to us

I think you misunderstood my point