The British political class, going to the mattresses for some Israeli football hooligans, against the police. Stark, raving mad.

Deeply cringe and unserious people

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

the part about that “i love hitler” groupchat is that it’s not surprising that all young republicans are nazis, this is just the average rightwinger these days. they’re all extremists who love every extreme position possible and everyone needs to realize that

in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

When I was a teenager, my sister was explaining Dadaism and the Luther Blissett phenomenon to me. Except, not being into football she pronounced his name with a French accent (as Blisset) which just sent me.

Deeper analysis and intellectual tradition are all good and well but let’s not overstate their importance if you’re going to keep falling for charlatans like Yanis Varoufakis.

www.bbc.com/news/article... "I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

The conservative idea that education, intelligence and learning is linear, by the way, is why tech bros are convinced that Artificial General Intelligence is possible and that what OpenAI et al are doing will lead there.

This type of conservative thinking imagines learning to be linear; in this instance that someone with A-Level English will be more fluent in English than someone with GCSE English, or a reading age of 11, when in actual fact they’ll just be better at analysing why you’re wrong to assume that.

Right, so, someone saying immigrants should have “A-level English” is someone who doesn’t know what the subject “English” is, which is learning to recognise and understand deeper meaning and symbolism in a text, to be able to analyse and deconstruct and get their own reading on a text

Yeah, but the numbers were shorter back then. 313251

2006

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

Anyone in this government or military should be afraid to travel to another country for the rest of their lives, because they know they’ll be arrested straight off the plane.

Labour spads looking at the massive increase in support for the Greens, "obviously this means we need to be even more like Reform". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why would you fuck with this guy

i still die laughing at this real canadian oil and gas lobby ad

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

These guys have fucked it before it even started and there's no return. Give up, encourage whatever supporters you have left to join the Greens.

Pinky promise no backsies

If you ever stuck up for "ideological diversity ' or good faith debate or whatever and thought guys like Thiessen were part of that congratulations you are a huge sucker and Thiessen and the other conservatives are laughing at you now that they won.

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

This what Polly was getting at: if your crackpot ideology can fairly be summarised as “craven sycophancy to the rich and the right wing, hoping they will reward your usefulness”, then that malfunctions, if the right and the rich are just cackling Baron Harkonnen-style fascists, vandals and looters.

in retrospect it was just great how milquetoast centrists decided the best way to react to the AWESOME police corruption and brutality exposed by the George Floyd protests was to go "actually, defund the police is a bad slogan, the Unserious Left needs to shut up" bsky.app/profile/mcle...

I know which way I’d bet

I had to google this and holy fucking shit

No notes! *chef's kiss*

How refreshing for a UK politician to call the press 'shit rags' rather than cowering in front of negative headlines.

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Nice coward’s ratio building up on this one.

Bari Weiss signs huge deal to usher CBS News into its Vichy era: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

It literally is not?????

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

I think the reason they were so eager to believe and promulgate the idea of a global child SA ring is because they were so deeply involved in one. They just thought that if they were doing it, everyone else was, too.

It’s happened again

And a UK and EU debate that is always 3 months behind the curve when it comes to discourse trends in the US that will influence the European Far Right means many are missing how trends there have shifted from focus on migrant deportation to a wider hankering after "cleansing" civil war

It is remarkable bordering on shocking how UK political debate still obsesses over small boats and other issues that will not be all that significant in the broad arc of history even as the basic foundations of the global system unravel

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness