I know it's asking a lot for journalists to be educated about what fascism is on an ideological and philosophical level, but this kind of thing is *unambiguously* fascism.

The puberty blocker trial is about to start according to the BBC, led by Dr Emily Simonoff. The same Dr who spoke at a symposium organised by Segm, a group designated an anti trans hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre /1 organizers-congress.org/frontend/ind...

Nothing much here that hasn’t been known for a long time but it is helpful to have people explaining exactly how bleak and disgusting this heist against the public was, and continues to be.

Sonia's "suddenly trans people are concerned about gnc cis women" line is so funny, it's not like anyone's been pointing it out since at least the NC bathroom bill way back in 2016. But, that would require actually listening to what we say and that is a complete anathema to gender critters

Lads, did you miss the decade and a half of e.g. roaring terror about Bolshevik intellectuals conspiring with the lesser races to destroy Britain? It seems like a hard one to have missed

We shithoused them in to do exactly this and now reality has caught up with us we're going to run round in a hotdog suit.

I've seen some takes on this site, but imagining that you cannot trace this government's policies straight back to new labour is horse shit. Fiscal rules, fake asylum seekers and rampant atlanticism are all the "common sense" of the new labour era.

Kegging up a black IPA. Have a good feeling about this one. Winter warmer.

Israel’s gleefully fascist government being held accountable for its industrial cull of the population of the Gaza Strip would deeply incriminate leaders of the United States and multiple white-people countries in crimes against humanity. It’s not just that it won’t happen: it *cannot be allowed*.

There are literal academic papers documenting this phenomenon and yet the liberal "left" still think the trick will work for them again and again. I hate them with a visceral passion.

Or, and bear with me here, people have eyes and ears.

The guy behind this entire project was the party’s billionaire bungs officer, whose job was obsolete if they were no longer seeking bungs from the rich. They swiftly destroyed the member-funded model and went right back to cash and Taylor tickets in exchange for favours and government contracts.

It’s the same thing as the terfery really: it’s just being an arsehole and a busybody, seething at people who are just quietly going about their business without harming or bothering anyone.

I forgot one am shocked at Sky's sexism. How could this possibly happen in a country that is trying to reduce the concept of a woman to "possesses a vagina"?

A lot of people getting pissy with Starmer just for over optimising his voter efficiency. Hate to see it.

Pretty much this.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.

for all the libs on this site say they oppose Trump in every way, they’re in absolute lockstep with him on this, they love this shit

Watch this because it tells you everything you need to know about how the right-wing weaponise fear. First come the facts. Then come the views of the public, sick of politicians & the media spreading unsubstantiated fear. Then comes the journalist, ignoring the facts & the public to spread fear.

You have to laugh at the absolute fever/terror around no wearing symbol so monetised and commodified you can get it on a fucking G-string. Unserious fash fucking nation.

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this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

The Labour government is about to give the answer to the question "what happens to the economy if you tax the people with the least disposable income more?" Isn't it?

You can't think of "people feel like they can't talk about these things" or other centrist clichés as anything saying something they really think. These things are the price of admission to Team Sensible. They're how you get on the podcasts with actual budgets.

Interesting analysis of press coverage of random violence a generation ago compared with now.

the mainstream media is complicit in the climate emergency and the ecofascism that's growing out of it

One of the things you'll never hear laid out is how every efficiency, every molecule of carbon saved is actually just freeing up room to sell more shit. No matter how efficient you make capitalism it demands growth. One way or another it'll consume everything.

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Manners, decorum, politeness etc. are actually pretty effective tools to suppress dissent and progress. People with power and in power always wield decorum to great effect and this is a great example and far from the only one.

The Labour right must be crushed. There is no more urgent political project in the UK.

I think it was Lilah said the dividing line for liberals vs the left is your stance on private property vs personal and she was bang on tbqh.

Yeah, in my view blaming social media is just dissimilation. Legacy media has been awash with racism and bigotry for as long as I can remember and that preceded the internet, let alone twitter. Legacy media and social media are a human centipede of horror; the internet is accelerant, not a cause.

Very critical support I guess.

Kind of embarrassing to still be doing this when the PM’s chief of staff himself has been explaining to the lobby journos that it was his idea, as part of a broad strategy designed to wreck his party and then seize control of the flaming wreckage.

The point cannot be made enough that it is not immigrants or people of colour who refuse to integrate with modern Britain: it is white racists like Pochin

We're going to use military force to ethnically cleanse a nation of at least 10% of it's population: sensible politics of the everyman We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite

The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later. 1/2

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

The fun thing about the Labour right is they are total fucking arseholes to a person, so once they lack a left wing to organise against they progress to fuck up after fuck up. Imagine failing to rig this vote when you have done so again and again against your left wing.

Tangential, I knew Labour won by default and therefore had feet of clay, but I have to say I never anticipated how quickly they'd fuck it. They could have staved this off if they hadn't telegraphed how willing to do bigotry and austerity they were. Turbo fucked themselves. Losers and good riddance.

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But there's always more money for authoritarian bullshit.

LOL just remembered we have a late budget coming up in November. 💀

The PM’s head of strategy spent 2024 bragging to journalists that Labour’s Racism Horror was in fact a bleakly cynical PR campaign that he himself cooked up out of Facebook posts by random members of the public, in cahoots with about five newspapers. Caveat emptor, is the lesson here.

I’d urge people to ask whether, if push comes to shove, the British press are likely to go full hate-jihad against Reform to save us all, particularly if doing so might be very helpful to the Green Party.

If you cannot properly name the problem (grim irony here), then you can never hope to address it. But you sure can pretend to fix it by addressing something else entirely.