Brian Emo

I do think it would be a useful reflex for us to develop as a society where if someone has a clear interest in concentrating wealth then they are presumed to be an abuser of some form rather than sticking with the idolisation that people seem to have for rich people generally

So... That Turning Point/UVF documentary with all the people admitting to actual crimes is going nowhere except the memory hole then, huh? Damn, you'd think that'd be at least one or two real journalists in the country capable of feeling shame about what that says about the industry.

Less of a problem though when they can rely on the BBC to broadcast the whole thing.

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

the most moderate, apolitical and non-controversial opinion in Elon Musk is that everything he sells is too good to be true, and will either fall apart and be expensive to fix, or will be clawed back and resold to you for more money

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

We’re owed rights more than your shitty candidate is owed a career.

I’d say his greatest political trick was destroying most of the Gaza Strip while the world’s most stridently malicious liberals relentlessly screamed abuse at anyone who objected to it

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

Today this dog in front was looking at the autumn leaves in the trees as the traffic crept forwards. It was beautiful

Show me your flashback Friday I think this will have been around 2004, probably school leavers do. I was well into The Hives at this point, as you can see

Unison is “surprised and disappointed the Home Secretary refused the opportunity to hear from a care worker who would be directly affected by the proposals” Shabana Mahmood refuses to meet with those impacted by her cruel policy. Pathetic. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Jo Rowling's accusation of elitism is a bit like the way some people who are pieces of shit like to say "you think you are better than me" indignantly to justify being pieces of shit. I don't think we should read much more than that We are better than her personally. We're not elite, the bar is low

Hoping to shift enough tickets for these shows to keep this tour a possibility - looks like I burnt too many bridges to be viable

It's really useful thinking about this in terms of "decoherence", a framework I hadn't thought of before. It really strongly mirrors the ways that e.g. the Move Fast And Break Things philosophy itself tends to have a general disregard for a coherent concept of what good design might be.

Look, I hate dickheads playing music on trains as much as anyone, but this is completely unenforceable. Meanwhile we're into the 4th week of gangs of fascists attacking houses in Salford and Burnham hasn't even mentioned it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s grimly hilarious that our government’s McCarthyist crackdowns on opposition have got so bad, so idiotic and so malicious that they may have now bullshat themselves into prosecuting the national security advisor’s wife for a terrorist offence, over a tweet.

The 1951 UN Refugee Convention is one of the legacies of the defeat of Nazism, inspired by the knowledge of the countless Jewish and other people who had been unable to escape, so I guess it’s unsurprising that Reform want to reverse it

Doesn't matter how many snappy podcast appearances he does. This is probably just as damaging to California as anything Trump is doing. A direct attack on people's capacity to limit the power of their fascist aristocracy.

‘identifying as a european is more important than the state trying to wipe out trannies!’ these ppl are in a cult.

I thought it was a core principle of Western liberalism (e.g. US Declaration of Independence) that it is people that have inalienable rights, not states or system of governance. And if a system of governance denies or violates people's rights, the people have the right to change it.

What he wants is for the Greens to return to their prior state as an ineffective conscience on the margins of UK politics with no interest whatsoever in matters beyond our island horizon. It is not just gesture politics. It is conservative, pessimistic and implicitly xenophobic.

When opposition parties call for the leader of another party to resign after an election loss, despite that party not being close to power, it is because they view them as some form of threat. If not, it would be in their interest for things to stay as they are

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

Sorry, what are we doing here. Why are we pretending that 'two states' is a viable option, that 'we just gotta do more sanctions and they'll get the message' is a viable strategy for achieving it, and that the standard, liberal Israeli position is currently still mass expulsion of the Palestinians?

Years ago I used to say that Elon would be remembered as one of history's greatest monsters because he knew he could solve world hunger and chose not to. Then he decided to make everything so much worse, deliberately. The scale of death he is responsible for is difficult to grasp.

Home office: listen to @bloodwork.show

The lesson to take from this is that the Allied action was not the consequence of consistent moral horror or determined ethical stance. And, precisely, that for much of the British ruling class the fear of losing colonies mattered much more than the fate of Jews at the time.

Heya folks. We're on a final push to get to £10k. We're on just over £8.3k. That's less than 1/10th of what fascist Danny Tommo has recently received inndonations after slashing a dinghy with an RNLI worker on it at sea. Meanwhile our comrade faces more than 12x the jailtime for opposing fascism.

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