But I don't want middle class students to be my base, I want people who work for British Leyland to be my base

Look, does our university fee system create an active market in higher education? No. But does it function to incentivise investment in your education and encourage aspiration? Well, also no. But at least it does fund the universities? Ha, you're not going to believe this.

Graham Linehan made a willing place in his heart for evil, and once you open that door wide all the horrors come in.

Labour couldn’t bring themselves to leave X when its owner publicly called for their government to be violently overthrown. If you’re going to to stick round after someone makes it clear they welcome your execution then it’s less surprising that child abuse isn’t a dealbreaker either.

I mean, at this point a "counter narrative" on X is an image of a fully clothed child

For those following this ugly little Grok story , I recommend reading Laura Bates’s latest book

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

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Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

It only took ten years for a dedicated bunch of well-connected weirdoes to get the entire UK elite to unite against a tiny minority of the population that they previously barely noticed. The few to resist, like Robin Ince, deserve our lasting gratitude and respect.

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In America it’s a deliberately dumb cartoon satirising the spiteful idiocy of a certain kind of middle aged reactionary; in Britain, it’s a newspaper column in the top selling paper, written by a former Prime Minister.

A bleak exercise: trying to explain *I* am a big old lib, that we believe in e.g. international law and protecting civil liberties, human rights and the rights of minority groups; that we oppose racism and inflaming hate against outgroups, and that the Labour right is antagonistic to all this stuff.

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If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.

It's just bonkers, we should be able to say "No, that is simply false" and have that be the end of it. But since unfortunately they have the backing of our press and a plucky billionaire now all of society has to undo the arrangements we had settled into!

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Why are these uppity students demanding we move the statue of the slaver, why are people willing to vote against brutal austerity, why are the transgenders *at all*, on and on, and the only explanation is: Demons have infected the public via their mobile phones.

This is obviously funny but I do also think the last sentence is pretty much how the effective altruism people justified hanging out in giant castles with rich people all the time.

I can only complain about this so much because "getting paid outrageously to say whatever stupid shit comes to mind to dumbasses" is a dream job, tbh

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Grim reading as someone who was taken in by Hewstone’s “charming public persona”.

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I mean, have there been any examples of people *at that specific organisation, within the commentary section of the papers* witnessing bad behaviour that they did not take any kind of action against and still refuse to speak openly about now

The UK outright engaged in stationary banditry, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, all in order to appease the most petty xenophobe bigots on earth. And I feel sure it won't even work on the Home Secretary's terms, ultimately all this will strengthen not weaken Reform.

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I followed the chain back and I don't think the claim is really consensus belief on here, I just think the relevant nexus of beliefs highly correlates with "likely to get in a fight with Will Stancil" and that is distorting his perception somewhat.

“There she goes again with her psycho fascist rants!” we used to laugh. “In the Spectator and, uh, on Radio 4. And now, as a columnist in the Times. Why is she on TV? A mass-murderer has quoted her in his wacko manifesto and now she’s being RT’d by Michael Gove. Wait, what exactly is going on here?”

This is why they won’t let the priests in to distribute the Eucharist.

“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?” Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM

It's almost like maybe the ones who've been driving the fascism all along were the chattering class "centrist" elite who resented their loss of control over bourgeois propriety to the damn millennial filthy proles on Twitter, and the crass egoist kleinburger bosses who resent being judged by anyone

this is honestly my main argument against AGI hype

Very sad to hear of Prof Pulvermüller’s passing. I only met him a couple of times but he always seems an incredibly nice man as well as a deeply insightful thinker.

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There’s no mystery about whose fault this is, is there? It’s been there on in Parliament, on TV, on the radio and next to the cigarette counter in Asda every day of this century so far. It could not possibly be more crystal clear who created this shitshow, and who continues to profit from it.

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What a great time to be a werewolf

Britain right now is like the deity did some vibe coding, flipped the sign on the national loss function, and it’s finding the least optimal set of parameters minimizing the number of satisfied individuals…

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Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Completely insane stuff really, like everyone lining up to declare their eternal affection for Milosevic’s Serbia or Hussein’s Iraq, during the siege of Sarajevo or the Anfal campaign. Polite applause, nodding heads. It’s all so very Sensible and Moderate.

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Haha those silly Americans, that would never happen here

Check out the chyron -- they are shilling their merch store during a funeral. The sheer vulgarity of these petty-hucksters-gone-big is wild to me. Government by fashy used car salesmen, I swear to God. It will never ever not be fundamentally strange to me that their own base find this appealing.