It's an analogy. Not a very good one maybe, but he's not literally telling you to buy a new kettle and the fact you believe he is maybe says more about you than him.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 10:55,
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But he's literally telling people facing the worst social deprivations seen in generations, that instead of investing in a progressive distributed network of renewable generation, storage and conservation at local and regional levels, he's willing to let the chinese cobble together a similar structure of a model that's already been found to be leaky, and it turns out that a kettle is the ideal analogous medium to do just that - just so long as you don't know anything about physics, care about people, have any degree of imagination, or already have enough money to get away from all of it should the need arise. Which is their core voter base so probably a shrewd move.
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This version, or rather this particular design, yes.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 18:50,
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The fat mess resigned in disgrace 6 weeks ago love
I think that says it all
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Everybody knows he's an idiot. That doesn't need saying - there's a vast array of evidence to prove that. However gleefully jumping on stuff that's so clearly taken out of context because you believe it's something he meant isn't a good look.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 13:48,
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He deserves it all and more
Not least because his entire journalistic career was built on gleefully taking things out of context and misrepresenting people.
He's now been entirely discredited and everyone is counting down the hours till he goes so what does it matter if this one thing he said didn't mean what his critics said it did?
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You seem to be confused. I'm not defending him. Fuck him. He deserves everything that's coming to him.
I'm pointing out that attacking him over a misrepresented soundbite is counter-productive as it makes the people doing it look like utter morons. Six-year-olds know what an analogy is. This stuff is absolutely basic. Do better.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 15:03,
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You did vote for him though didn't you
And I think you'd probably do it again given half a chance
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As it happens, I didn't. Try not to let that shatter your world too much.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 17:07,
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Amazing how hard it is to find a tory voter now
Where have you all gone?
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Next election I think I'll do so "ironically"
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 18:27,
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Don't forget to Twitch my TikTok of it onto Snapchat Prime
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 18:28,
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You know that Tory voters
don't have the monopoly on disagreeing with you, right?
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So, assume someone buys a new kettle
To get one that is more efficient they would be looking at ones that cost over £50 which means you would only break even after 5 years.
Not sure it's the best way to deal with an acute cost of living crisis.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 2 Sep 2022, 16:21,
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