Never forget that that the modern brand of fascism is built on the conspiracy theory that a woman had sex with a guy in order to get a good review for her free browser game
Weird. “Hostility to ethnic minorities en bloc” + “the social policy preferences of the craziest street preacher you can find” are not an attractive combo. Who would have guessed?
The basic argument is “would you like to survive and have institutions that work even at a basic level” and that will be refuted by a sizeable % of people saying “no”
I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.
‘Coalition of socially Conservative working class voters and with middle class social liberals cannot survive an election campaign’. What does Keir Starmer think the Labour coalition is, or has ever been?
You got to feel for Matt Goodwin.
Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.
This campaign provided the defining image of the old Labour right at every point through its history: when one of its activists saw the living room of their party’s genuine core and could not recognise it for what it was.
This is importantly incorrect - Labour did a whole bunch of evil culture war shit whilst raising government spending and improving worker rights. The take-out is that riding those horses at the same time doesn't work, working class right wingers are too far down the rabbit hole to win with policy!
On the one hand YouTube is a giant radicalisation machine that is pushing existing global political structures to breaking point. On the other, there’s ALWAYS a video by a retired handymen showing how to fix the door slide on your specific brand of kitchen drawer. So I’m calling it a score draw.
just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"
Ringing a call centre with the sole intention of ruining the day of the employee who answers? Prize cunt. No exceptions. You've got a complaint. You're angry. The staff member on minimum wage is trying to help you. Don't be a bullying cunt.
This situation with the discourse yesterday over John Davidson has gotten me pretty upset tbh, not just over the widespread lack of understanding of his condition and the clear hurt caused to many viewers over being exposed to racist language, but because it's revealed how discourse aggravates harm.
I can still fix it.
For people who have not poisoned their brain with information overdose addiction, Twitter and Bluesky are both uninteresting because fundamentally they are sites for people who cannot live without gossip but also happen to have multiple degrees.
it's so good to learn that when some people said "destigmatise mental illness" they didn't mean, like, "stop judging people for things they can't help," they meant "i should be allowed to get up late for work"
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
a cat in a tie sits outside of a factory. the cat says "Hope no one is weird to me." The factory is labeled "Being Weird Factory" and has the bluesky logo on it
REACTION SPEED - Wait. Did he just say *Wompty-Dompty-Dom Centre*?
SUGGESTION - He did it! He said *Wompty-Dompty-Dom Centre* like it's the most natural thing in the world.
do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh
INLAND EMPIRE - It's all gone now. You never became a poet or an entroponaut.
When you dig deeper around mysteriously successful figures you generally find that rather than being incomprehensibly brilliant masters of the universe, they actually just lied a bunch and committed a bunch of crimes that no one wanted to look too hard at
Yes. People love to paint Corbyn and Starmer as opposites but there are throughlines over their tenures atop the Labour Party: corrosive, faux macho bullying, horrible appointments made for loyalty rather than competence, a sneering indifference to racism & gaslighting of its victims
The flaw in the McSweeney/Starmer project can be summed up with "the people whose pitch to the electorate was they were serious also had no interest in policy", and when stated that bluntly it seems extraordinary it got this far
One of many things that Starmer and McSweeney have in common is neither is particularly interested in policy, and I think the lack of 'I need goodwill in order to deliver change' and the 'our planning for government goes to another school' all come from that.
I don't believe that all mental health challenges are downstream of politics but I've been finding it increasingly rough, watching autism & ADHD turned into a new theatre of the culture wars. The hit pieces on SEN kids, the endless badly-researched columns on 'overdiagnosis' - I feel really crushed.
"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism" is the funniest thing a Labour MP has said for some time I'll give it that. It's like a Jordan Peterson quote about Elmo.
Woke 1 was about critiquing power, Woke 2 will be about using it.
