I think it’s called politics. At least that seems to be the modern word for gaslighting. I’m not sure of any major party in parliament or the media that doesn’t talk like they’re operating in a completely different reality.

Kill your babies innit

Decent band name that.

Lol Conservatives doing research.

Oh yeah, I remember Wall-E

Sure, go eat the moon or whatever, I don’t care, I don’t need it, I’m not a werewolf.

Sure, go eat the moon or whatever, I don’t care, I don’t need it, I’m not a werewolf.

Shouldn’t you at least make sure you’re good before you start challenging people to fight you?

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

So many comments from people seem to have read some sort of LinkedIn article titled “Change your anti-Semitic diatribe from insane rant to thought leadership with this one special word.”

I've avoided writing this for a long time because of....well look at the replies I'm getting already. But something snapped watching the discourse around the Hatzola ambulance attacks last week. It's really getting out of hand.

I’m known for it.

*Winds up the outrage engine* **checks date** ***winds down the outrage engine*** (mutters) “stupid April fools”

At that point, the Greens shared an Ec Left border with Reform - anything that boosted Green 'valence/competence' / hurt Reform 'valence/competence' means that border shifts X paces towards Reform and a slice of voters go Ref -> Grn. And that's just from the ~dumbest model possible.

I genuinely don’t think this is that surprising. They’re both essentially protest votes. Low info voters going “reform, sounds good” and “green, sounds good.” Maybe some of them are deciding Farage is a tool and the other guy looks fine, but a lot of it is “no, not them.”

There’s a lot of bullshit laws though. I’m not sure it’s important to follow the bullshit ones. Sometimes it’s your moral duty to not follow ‘em.

Obviously this has nothing to do with falling fertility rates, because women don’t respond to financial incentives, only men do that.

FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

The Christofascists in the Daily Mail and Telegraph are slipping. M&S have replaced all the Easter Eggs with chocolate animals and I’ve not seen one unhinged rant about the true meaning of Easter. M&S Dubai must offer a different selection.

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

Oh great, so apart from the evidence of failure itself, it seems the intellectual basis for Osbourne’s austerity programme was also based on an error that literally reversed the conclusion. Good oh.

what does the j mean nyt. WHAT DOES THE J MEAN🪿

I find myself increasingly in thrall to my “too many people equate wealth with intelligence” theory of why everything is bad right now.

At last! The elusive Brexit-Benefit has been found! Huzzah!

“Some people just like being treated like fools I guess” is basically how I conceptualise Reform UK voters TBH. Imagine being angry that The Conservatives failed to do anything about your imagined threat from immigration and deciding you’ll vote The-Conservatives-but-rebranded in protest.

I can’t imagine how anyone watches Talk TV without feeling acute embarrassment that they’re watching a channel that employs a clown like Oakeshott as International Editor. Some people just like being treated like fools I guess.

“Contemporary” is an interesting adjective for The Doors and Pink Floyd

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

UK Politics operates in a fantasy realm almost, but not completely unlike the Britain of reality example # 254

In Britain we are more enlightened, because our legacy media class also know what social class they belong to.

NYT people do not consider what they do a profession they consider it a class.

Just a reminder that conservatives are actually terrible at all the things they have a reputation for: Economic stewardship, fiscal restraint, moral leadership, fighting crime etc etc. It’s all just branding bullshit.

Seems reasonable.

Sweet, so long as it’s only vessels bound for Europe.

“AI forces you to be unique or die” is a weird thing to say if you’re using AI to produce your content. AI is a stochastic parrot, it is the opposite of unique.

It’s a rejected Ben and Jerry’s Flavour. It was unflavoured frozen yoghurt with sprinkles mixed in.

Lol, that’s just embarrassing for everyone involved.

hi, sorry, not sure i follow. could you rephrase this but in an even more embarrassing way for an adult to talk

I genuinely genuinely don't know what the point of this kind of thing is. Trump is, quite obviously, not making or acting upon some sophisticated geopolitical view. Obviously. Nobody could possibly believe it, it seems humiliating to even pretend to believe it. What does pretending as much gain?

The Atlantic during the campus protests

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Why?

I think it probably comes along in the old way: what we're basically seeing is new brands e.g. News Agents, The Rest is politics - pushing out old established brands. Those podcast companies have enough to fund IR if they want to and as things get competitive, you assume (hope) they will want to.

Wow, that really explains why so many Tory MPs seem to be such dipshits. Only 40% read the FT, but 60% read the Telegraph.

surprised these people thought their Reform MP would be concerned about flooding, Not much flooding in Dubai I hear.

Oh no, what will this do to all our Dubai based politics experts?

However common antisemitism is getting, however more violent, there’s comfort in the British antisemite still giving pure loser vibes Like an embarrassing, massive loser vibes Britain’s historical triumph was defeating Nazism, it’s in the national consciousness, DNA Being antisemitic is so lame

Hold the phone! “With the culture team taking free tickets to the Brits, Baftas and Winter Olympics – all of which are linked to their brief.” Did someone wake up Lisa Nandy? When did that happen?

There’s something of a cautionary tale in all those coders who became AI evangelists, crowing at artists getting their work stolen who now risk seeing their jobs be replaced by vibe coders.

Just bear in mind that doing those things will mean you’re poor and depressed most of the time.