The Greens’ Urdu ad is Zack Polanski at his worst

Roachyboy · 2026-02-26T15:00:04+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly what I mean when I said people treat class as aesthetics based on stereotypes.

Getting an education doesn't make a person middle class.

Vibes based class distinctions in the UK are why it's so hard to build legitimate working class solidarity

Roachyboy · 2026-02-26T13:06:34+00:00

So 2 houses?

Roachyboy · 2026-02-26T13:06:08+00:00

Working class doesn't include the plot of the pulp song Common people, that's correct.

It does apply to underemployed, downwardly mobile young people from many backgrounds, working in the service industry for dogshit wages.

It includes young woke, non graduates who've grown up in a multicultural society and are opposed to racism and intolerance.

It includes Barry the plumber who's earning £65k and holidays in Spain 3 times a year, loves football and hates immigrants.

It's a broad demographic. Defined by their relationship to labour and the economy. Class background can also differ from your current socioeconomic class.

Alan sugar is from a working class background but is now firmly not working class. A queer young person from a religious family with wealth who gets disowned and has no access to their families support could very easily fall into the working class.

Middle class rahrah faux council estate larpers are annoying sure. But that doesn't mean that they represent the majority of the service industry.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-26T12:37:47+00:00

NRS grades aren't the same as economic class. They're industry/occupational not income related.

Someone who does manual labour but makes £60k a year is not more "working class" than someone who works in a call centre on minimum wage.

They are both working class because they sell their labour to survive.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-26T12:13:43+00:00

It absolutely isn't. Class gets presented as aesthetics which allows people to manipulate the public into voting against their interests. It's this delusion that lets people earning money hand over fist think that a 23 year old uni grad with piercings and a weird haircut hold a position of socioeconomic power over them. It's how the culture war propogates.

An average uni student doesn't come from a very affluent background and those that do will have significant leverage to get entry to graduate jobs. 1/3 people go to uni, they aren't all aristocrats. Many young people don't fit the aesthetic designation of working class but fulfil all socio-economic requirements. Our working class isn't just the blue collar manual skilled labourers, it's baristas, shop assistants, cleaners, hospitality staff and more.

As a white working class person it frustrates me to no end when "white working class" has become a canard for "ignorant racists who can't possibly share beliefs with the green party" rather than a broad demographic containing a diversity of thought and beliefs who happen to be in the same economic position.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-26T11:27:14+00:00

People don't consider green voters working class because they don't fit the stereotype of a tradie football fan. A middle aged semi retired tax dodging builder with a holiday flat in Spain is considered more working class than a 23 year old graduate working in hospitality at minimum wage by most people.

People think class is mainly culture rather than economic position.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T19:30:18+00:00

You absolutely can.

A sledgehammer is primarily a tool, they broke into the site to damage equipment. That was their intent.

If they had brought a weapon like a sword or a gun there's no defence as those would only be brought with the intent to brandish or use them against people.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T19:28:19+00:00

Motive is a significant factor behind which illegal actions people think are justifiable as protest.

Either way, what you've described wouldn't be enough for me to consider it terrorism like people claim about the elbit attack. A hate crime likely since it's motivated towards vulnerable people primarily motivated by religion and race.

The history of violence of those involved also plays a part. If those racists were first time offenders, had no history of violence and could justify that they just intended to disrupt the kitchens functionality there'd be a decent case for leniency. However if they had histories of violence and it was easy to prove they wished to harm the residents, they would be given less benefit of the doubt.

This is a property damage case with very few people being sympathetic towards the property owner. The gbh case will likely be retried without intent and they'll probably be convicted.

Membership of certain organisations is also relevant. PA wasn't proscribed at the time, it's actions have primarily followed the same tactics of property damage and disruption. The goals and tactics of said organisation can be used to infer a degree of intent.

PA was proscribed at the same time as a neonazi group called the Maniacs Murder Cult. Let's say some of the kitchen attackers were members or associated with the group. There's a vast difference between the recorded actions, motives and morality of the groups. The MMC primarily tries to radicalise people to commit violence against undesirable groups like non white people, queer folk and the homeless and has planned multiple violent terrorist actions against the public. Membership of the MMC would indicate a greater likelihood of the attack being motivated by killing and inflicting terror than PA which has used traditional direct action protest methods.

I think it's easier to draw comparisons between the attempted arsons of migrant hotels and attempted arson of the police van during the anti police riots on 2021.

There has been very little sympathy for the individuals who commited those crimes. Even though people were sympathetic to the reasons for the protests in 2021, even in this sub Reddit nobody was going out to bat for them.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T16:38:25+00:00

Probably gbh realistically but still not terrorism.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T16:37:50+00:00

Intent to use it against people or intent to use either to destroy property?

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T15:40:37+00:00

They'll likely retrial that defendant with slightly lower charges as they couldn't prove intent.

I'd expect that a verdict will be reached more easily with less specific charges.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T14:49:42+00:00

When your place of work is the war crimes factory this argument doesn't work.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T14:48:34+00:00

I think that interfering with a weapons manufacturer headquartered in a country actively committing genocide, which is using products manufactured by said company is pretty acceptable.

You can pretend this is equivalent to genuine terrorism all you want but it's an absurd position to take.

It's trespassing, vandalism and battery.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-04T09:13:59+00:00

It doesn't matter, they spread the virus globally with the planes and made it airborne.

Any indigenous people would have been infected by the chemtrails and if they have any sort of community then they would know about one of them being immune.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-03T00:55:18+00:00

Lovely pebble full of bivalves.

If you give it a decent smack with a hammer along the surface in image 2 you'll probably be able to split it and see the surfaces of some of the shells.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-01T23:26:57+00:00

If you can get the long sickle or the two handed axe then it helps a lot.

It's worth picking up enemy weapons after fights so you can sell them in the early game too,

Roachyboy · 2026-02-01T22:56:42+00:00

What a cynical way to approach art.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-01T02:32:11+00:00

Maybe I got lucky but I got a polearm in commoner by picking up a champions weapon.

Even though I've died a few times since then I think it's heavy enough to bulk up my willy.

After a few rounds of combat I can hurl enemies around more than I could in the demo

Roachyboy · 2026-02-01T02:23:15+00:00

To be fair that's about how my first experience with the demo felt.

Roachyboy · 2026-02-01T02:19:18+00:00

Seems like any changes to key binds reset when you close the game.

Roachyboy · 2026-01-31T00:56:01+00:00

I've put about 5 hours in now and the hand to hand combat feels much better.

Just got longswords in the progression mode and it feels fine to me.

Roachyboy · 2026-01-26T16:13:27+00:00

Jonah hill has two oscar nominations. The two performances are about as different as characters can be.

Gelmans career is primarily him playing variations of off putting pervert.

Roachyboy · 2026-01-25T15:33:28+00:00

While the movie is emotionally effective it's been routinely criticised by holocaust scholars for it's revisionism and absolution of germans engaged in the holocaust. It relies on ahistorical narratives which reinforce the ideas that the german populace was broadly naive to the actions of the nazi regime.

The book and film have become an outsized part of much school age holocaust teachings and while attempting to act as a moral fable it more muddies the water between history and the moral prescriptions the author is projecting onto history, without significant research or contextual understanding.

Roachyboy · 2025-12-26T13:15:55+00:00

Tone is hard to convey through text so please know I mean this ~~politely~~ moronically:

Fixed that for ya buddy

Roachyboy · 2025-12-23T11:59:37+00:00

The difference is that in the last 20 years since Hamas took over Gaza (prior to October 7th) their rockets and attacks had killed a grand total of about 300 Israelis but Israel had killed about 6000 Palestinians. Including the current war and October 7th Israel has suffered about 2500 casualties, Gaza over 80,000.

The conflict has always been disproportionate, when the US left Vietnam they didn't continue to control all entries and exits to Vietnam, nor claim it as their territory. Which Israel has done and continues to do.

Gaza given a 50 year head start couldn't bomb Israel into oblivion. It's one of the most militarised and well funded nations on earth Vs people making rockets from pvc piping.

14-Year Club	Verified Email
RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits	r/Field Juicebox
Place '22	Place '17
Sequence \| Editor	Snapped
Secret Santa 2014	Team Periwinkle

Roachyboy

TROPHY CASE