Hoo boy, we would be *so fucked* if the press had simply imposed these horrible swine that everyone hates upon the public, because they themselves wanted it and they could impose it, and Fuck You if you didn’t want it! Can you imagine how bad it might be, if the government had no legitimacy.
Luckily we have a government everyone loves and the whole populace is right behind them through this new disaster, because both politicians and media outlets sought public consent for this project rather than simply imposing it upon everyone, by shouting idiotic drivel at them over several years.
Why, it’s almost like it might be in Iran’s direct interest to inflict damage so bad
and globally destructive, in such a critical area of the world, that America could not dream of ever attacking it again
Now would be a very good time to decide whether you want the populist monster that’s going to emerge and destroy the political settlement to be on the left, or the right. Bear in mind, it’s very clear indeed what the right wants.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour was us asking nicely for your permission to improve matters somewhat, for everyone. I don’t know who the next guy will be but having seen how the lads dealt with us asking nice, we won’t ask so nicely, next time.
Jeremy Corbyn • @jeremycorbyn • 1d $ ... We cannot let Keir Starmer drag this country into another illegal war. That's why I tabled a Bill to require Parliamentary approval for the foreign use of British bases. Today, I urged the Prime Minister to fulfill the promise he made in 2020 and pass this legalisation, now.
They were terrified of this guy because of the social forces he unlocked, quite accidentally. But he’s a letter-writing, petition collecting kind of politician, he thinks he’s there to enable others. A proper populist monster would lay waste to the British political landscape.
Your reminder that Joss Whedon wasn’t allowed to be alone with 14 year old Michelle Trachtenberg.
Just if you’re getting excited about his career re-launch and don’t care about his revolting behaviour toward Charisma Carpenter.
Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under £1,000.
Exorbitant water bills. One-third covers interest & dividend payments
Companies paid over £85bn in dividends, borrowed billions to pay. Sewage dumped in rivers, fines waived. No bailiff ever sent. No exec punished
Speaking of media literacy. Y'all be talking about Scooby Doo like it's a show about ghosts and ghouls. That shit was about capitalists using fear to turn a profit. Every episode. Contemporary Scooby inserts real supernatural elements, but real Scooby understands, the only real evil is capital.
They just can’t stop lying.
In Japan there are 36 words for walking!
Like Japanese cities, the language is highly pedestrian friendly
like sorry but any kind of new firefly thing has three main problems
one - joss whedon is a super creep
two - adam baldwin helped start gamergate
three - the core premise of firefly is racist and at some point you have to address that they didn't even like add any chinese characters for the movie
why has nobody else simply hit the button that removes Iran
Design for 80 social housing apartments in Blanes, Spain, designed by 08014 Arquitectura
A symphony of shades
It's amazing how many people I know who work in a middle management public services role , who are desperate to quit. But quit to do anything, work in a supermarket or something. They're often managing like 15, 20, 30 staff. Earning maybe £50-£60k a year. And they're just completely overwhelmed
It’s always something when it’s like, “oh yeah, and they made a movie about this appalling racist colonial atrocity 4 decades after, but it was banned”
and it’s… literally 1988.
Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
Exactly this
Since we're having tech press discourse. Yes they're responsible for you believing Musk was a genius because they didn't know what the hell they were looking at. Many such cases.
Anyway, this fits right with a wider week of British pundits looking at how completely fucked it all is, and concluding it’s the fault of individual politicians they hate, the public in general or a kind of free-floating miasma of indecisive weakness.
What Is Trump Trying To Achieve In Iran? Politics Politics Unpacked > 25m W Donald Trump has demanded the "unconditional surrender" of Iran and says he wants to choose its next leader. But does he have any idea of how to achieve that? Guto Harri unpacks the news and politics of the day with Alys Denby and Michael Binyon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
And as you say, this Tim Shipman piece made it very clear that his instinct was to be with America, and Ed Miliband and other members of the cabinet strongly opposed, I think was a great quote, it was a petulant, legalistic, and deeply political. And let's not forget, this comes right off the back of this Gordon and Denton by-election, which Labour spectacularly lost. A safe seat for hundreds of years, lost to the Greens by forming a coalition of Muslim voters and rainbow open borders lefties that handed this seat to the Greens. So Keir Starmer does have political difficulties at home that are influencing his decision making, whatever you think. So I don't think this is a sign of strength, I think it's weakness. And I think Ed Miliband is the secret linchpin behind all of this. There's something I like to call the Ed Miliband theory of everything.
I have a funny feeling we need a long lunch to discuss that. But there is, you know, I was just thinking Ed Miliband opposed, you know, the last full on Gulf War. His brother didn't, he was part of the Tony Blair government that backed the Americans. When it came to the leadership that should have been David Miliband's, Ed Miliband, his own younger brother stood against him and beat him. Lot of people have said, had that gone the other way, David Miliband had won, Labour would have won the election, and Ed Miliband won, Labour lost the election, and the history of Britain was different, and whether we'd be out of the EU and all kinds of other things, all go down to Ed Miliband being fratricidal.
At the Times podcast, the lads are discussing Britain’s disastrously fucked domestic and international state. Former foreign correspondent Michael Binyon, who appears to be authentically deranged, identifies the true culprit.
Best way to fix this? Jump in a Time Machine to 2024 and the moment it becomes clear the Israelis intend to destroy the Gaza Strip, massacre its citizens up to six figures and pen them in a tiny, miserable camp, Europe unites to threaten sanctions and blockades. Boom! No war against Iran. Done, easy
We'd benefit from corners being sanitised. We have world-class delivery from both sides and Gabriel in the middle.
Baby was roaring like a lion so I said "you're a feral beast!"
Next thing, she's running into the other room to my partner proudly shouting "I'm a feral beast, mummy!"
Imagine them still doing this with, say, Ratko Mladic in 1995. And the IDF has been massacring civilians at a rate that makes that guy look more like a somewhat boisterous drunk driver than a military commander.
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
