in Gaza we were all told to pretend for a while that Israel repeatedly blew up schools & hospitals by accident so remember you do not for a single solitary second have to listen to anyone pretending that the US or Israel targeting & destroying a primary school in Iran was an accident
I mean, you can look at the polling and instantly see where the real bullshit and shenanigans began in earnest. It’s staring everyone in the face, you have to actively not want to know.
the problem with this can be summed up as “what happened in 2017, idiots?” maybe it’s not that people just aren’t smart enough to understand centrism, maybe they hate it because it’s useless
Come on. Does it not seem more likely that maybe two thousand people in London who know each other and work together - often in the same building - have fucked it? Like, I do not think Celtic FC have been shit this year due to declining fitness levels in the Scottish population.
I prefer my explanation for many reasons but the key one is: their reasoning requires a whole society of millions of people to be wankers and idiots. Whereas my explanation works just fine if the actual idiot wankers are a very small group of people who work together in one city.
Ben Judah @b_judah Follow The shift from an industrial society with mass parties whose culture was based around books to an internet society with fandoms based around content is the mega trend of our times. It ticks through political fandoms going viral, only to pop, without the slow thinking, slowly buildup party formation to be able to truly reform or govern. This isn't, of course, the only thing behind the bubble politics of recent years — Corbyn, Brexit, Boris, Farage, Greens — but it is an important and little recognised background. Politics beats like the internet. And now Polanski has gone viral.
The Spectator @spectator X.com Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today. They are also our first post-literate generation, a demographic which doesn't read newspapers, which doesn't read books willingly, who instead get their politics on their smartphones from emotive TikTok videos devoid of nuance, depth and context. This is the demographic with a reduced attention span that doesn't even listen to radio bulletins or watch the news from reputed broadcasting organisations. & Patrick West
Luke Tryl • @LukeTryl • 3h X We're obviously used to it by now, but the speed and acceleration of the collapse of the two party system remains striking. In our latest poll the two main parties received just 37% support between them. The combined vote share of the two main parties has fallen to just 37 per cent
I see that “we’ve become a post-literate society” in the first two images here is now the explanation for the absolutely comical polling nosedive in the third one. How about this instead: “Your leaders tried to prop up an obviously broken system, and clowns like these two helped them”?
Graph: “The combined vote share of the two main parties has fallen to just 37 per cent”. Arrow pointing at the cliff face drop off since 2017. Text added by me: Something decisive must have changed here. But what?
I won’t keep you in suspense: the answer is “Politicians and their media friends realised they could just say and do whatever the fuck they wanted to - no matter how wildly irresponsible and damaging - and nobody would be able to stop them, because they were holding all the microphones”.
Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.
Perfect example of why everyone hates tech people. Perpetually aggrieved self righteous douchebags who cant even take the lightest ribbing of their unwarranted sense of self importance lol
We really are a stupid species.
The worst possible news
This means 2C will likely be breached in the late 2030s
So much for us being on track for a 2.8C rise by 2100
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is a very good encapsulation of how a lot of us feel about the impact of AI on a day to day basis which is that using it to find information can be more helpful than Google but a lot of that is because Google has gotten much worse
LabourList fully embracing the transphobic bigotry of the "Labour" Party.
"Reform blames scrounging migrants. The Greens blame the rich" - to the Economist those two points are equally bad
And what does the Economist offer to boost growth? Failed 'centrism' - welfare cuts and planning deregulation
It is precisely this failing 'centrism' is fuelling the rise of both
You are not “limiting withdrawals” if you don’t pay out more than the threshold you established. If retail clients thought they were in a liquid vehicle this is a marketing issue.
"Millenial Nazi whose only way to understand the world comes from a pastiche of blockbuster films and video games," is really becoming a defining aesthetic of our era.
Luke Tryl • @LukeTryl • 3h X We're obviously used to it by now, but the speed and acceleration of the collapse of the two party system remains striking. In our latest poll the two main parties received just 37% support between them. The combined vote share of the two main parties has fallen to just 37 per cent
The louder the lads hail the new moderate politics, the more the public hate it. What’s happened here, do we think? Is it the public that have got it wrong.
I notice that public support has an inverse rate to the number of pundits explaining that the Adults Are Back In Charge and that Britain is crying out for just this kind of moderate, Sensible governance. Can anyone explain how that could’ve happened?
Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu.
An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic-solar panels in Yinchuan,
Great photos of China's record smashing solar boom
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
gyre? not widening.
center? holding.
falcon? listening.
blood-dimmed tide? properly restrained.
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Just a carbon oligarchy, wasting taxpayer money, making a country a ridiculous laughing stock around the world. (6/n)
#CarbonOligarchy
This is what I mean when I talk about “Carbon Oligarchy”.
This guy is a government advisor…Jeez.
Talking about himself, Edward Said noted it was important to not “fall into routine, repeating the same catch phrases.”
Like Quincy Jones said, “We need more songs, man. Fucking songs, not hooks.”
god i really hope america and israel don't start ww3 before arsenal win the league and spurs get relegated at the same time
We /are/ going to see tons of people flee here and they are right to do so because the alternative in many cases is going to be death or medieval immiseration.
it is to be very goddamn clear especially evil to do the entire song and dance Shabana is doing in the context of us being very obviously on the eve of a new massive Middle Eastern refugee crisis
A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.
It's not just oil, the way. Fertilisers, and therefore food prices also in the firing line. www.ft.com/content/7efe...
