This is the key point, and why it's baffling some people still insist the lesson we draw from the 2015-2019 is that the left were too keen on wagon-circling. The actual (debatable) individual limitations of Corbyn matter orders of magnitude less than what we learned about how the UK media operates.

Subtly downgrade a band: Cromulent Pumpkins

I also think this point is worth making more broadly. People drove a multi-billion dollar corporation to its knees in the space of 120 hours. That is absolutely amazing, except in all the ways it isn't, because *that is the power the people always have*. We just have to be prepared to use it.

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

always good to know that people would rather have their kids die of preventable diseases than end up like me :)

Anyone who gushed over that Luther monologue in Andor but is going full doomer has to understand that’s been the fight actual committed leftists have been in for almost two centuries. Most leftists in history haven’t even been able to glimpse the promised land, and none have truly gotten there.

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

This is perversely impressive as an act of language corruption - if we pretend "woke" means "censorious", and pretend it's the left who are censorious, then we can also pretend the post-Kirk attacks on free speech are the right acting like the left, and hence are "woke right".

Call of the Wilde I can draw one of these for you if you like. All my cartoons are drawn to order, they're not prints. www.worldofmoose.com/products/cal...

Fuck your online-only multiplayer, give me split screen you cowards.

I think everybody could use some good news today.

“Clearly since Nazis exist we need to find common ground and accept this.” No we don’t, you fucking dipshit. Why are you like this?

Is it good, if your political project is now becoming the byword for “betraying your supporters to slavishly suck up to fascists, until the whole thing tanks catastrophically to despised public enemy levels”

Shai-Hulud #Dune

This is like when Graham Linehan said that wokeness was so powerful that even his closest and oldest friends wouldn't go on record to say he wasn't a bigot lol.

Absolute thread.

Willow

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

“This movie’s brought to you with limited interruptions.” Wow really you’re limiting the interruptions that’s so cool of you I mean originally the service I paid for had no interruptions which arbitrarily changed while the price of that service has increased several times since but no, thanks a lot

If you haven't read this book yet, I commend it to you.

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

On which note, in all those profiles of Morgan McSweeney in the last year I don't recall much being made of the fact that he is apparently Peter Mandelson in a Scooby Doo villain mask and everyone knew this. Maybe it just slipped their minds.

🎶 We didn’t scour the Shire 🎶

R' Danya has brought tears to my eyes this morning with her thoughtful, honest accounting. It's more leadership than I've seen from my own rabbis in the last 709 days, and I sincerely hope Hashem blesses LiST and R' Danya's work with fruitful abundance. This felt like a morsel of Olam Haba. 🥹

My election prediction was “they’ll get fewer votes than in 2019 (because nobody likes them or wants what they’re selling)”, and my prediction for their early years in government was “disastrous nosedive as soon as people start realising they were conned into buying a shit sandwich”.

We're All Going To The World's Fair Dude, Where's My Car? Home Alone

Is it concerning, that it’s suddenly common knowledge among all the lads that the Prime Minister has never been in charge of his party, and the whole project going back to the secret wrecking campaign was always the work of one of Peter Mandelson’s protégés who most people would never have heard of?

Whenever you see anything in the media about trans people remember this and if you have the spoons post it under any reference to some BS that's said about trans people theonion.com/it-is-journa...

average black experience this week:

For non-Brits: Our political/media class bet absolutely everything on it being fine to demonise and destroy the anti-racist left, who were getting too big for their boots, because the Sensible Moderates could co-opt and control the racist right. And they have now fucked it into the upper ionosphere.

We just spent ten years *screaming* at the public on every available channel that the type of people who would organise anti-racist rock concerts to build a broad progressive movement are hateful, Britain-hating racist extremists. Best of luck doing this now, lads.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Bela Lugosi Is Literally Dead

Light bit of far-future grim darkness today.

This one still hurts.

Charlie Kirk hagiographies promote political violence, by suggesting the problem with his murder isn't *the act of murder*, but that he didn't actually deserve to be killed.

A wee subtweet vent, about a conversation elsewhere, and of no use to the movement, but: godDAMN, am I sick of people insisting that the importance and validity of their strategic criticisms means they can deliver that criticism as unpleasantly as they want.

I remember one of the criticisms of the Floyd protests being the idea it was self-evident that Black lives matter and I really wish people would come back around to reassess where they are now with it and what made them feel so sure then?

When these things happen which clearly express who we value and who we don’t, believe them.

Aliens

This line ended up being the foundation of me committing to becoming a better person.

We're supposed to have free speech in this country, yet when I write a b2b article about three NHS pathology departments being consolidated into a single entity I'm still not allowed to make the headline "Diagnosis: Merger".

If anyone on the left was as nasty to people on the right as Charlie Kirk was to everyone not a white Christian nationalist, every fucking liberal pundit, including Klein, would scold that leftist for not doing politics right, and you know it.

how a lot of my people look right now

huge fan of Ireland, love their work www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The "kill baby Htiler?" thought experiment is counterproductive, for two reasons. The first is that it reframes the historical and political factors that led to the rise of German fascism as the inherent evil of one man. 1/2