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Sorry for making you look at him but yet again, as with Peterson, Musk, Montgomerie and so many others, the turn to the hard/far right begins with obsessive transphobia. It might be the primary driver of rightwing radicalisation over the last decade. They always bring it up.

submitted 12 hours ago • 38 comments

You can tell a lot about Britain because in the posh supermarket, Waitrose, the detector thingy is like “go off king. You put your laptop bag on the scale by mistake. We trust you” and every other self service detector is like “welcome to the country that gave the world Judge Dredd”.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

On the use of "NPC," it feels like without a civilization-wide renaissance of humanism we are well and truly cooked.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Hilarious that no matter where in the world there is a rejigging of resources & priority away from private cars towards mass transit or active travel there is a predictable backlash which starts with mass transit is stinky, unsafe and then quickly progressed to mass transit is for the elites.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

yeah the mistake they made was assuming their colleagues would have some bare minimum of professional pride or backbone

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

i was ranting to some marxists last night that one of the reasons that the left kept on failing in the 20th century was that leninism and maoism became seen as a skeleton key to success and so ppl kept on cargo culting it if a similar thing happens with trumpism, lmao, critical support ig

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

This is not an intellectual point, bur I wanted to state that I am frightened by the situation in the US and I am becoming even more anxious by the extent to which most people I know IRL (ie: not politics addicts) are entirely unmoved

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

I’ll admit it: I am a pearlclutcher who really dislikes it when people use this dehumanising phrase to talk about people, and who cannot understand why people don’t immediately grasp why it is distasteful.

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

There’ve been so many good critiques of Kemi Badenoch but they’ve all been superseded by “if it’s not on her Twitter feed it didn’t happen”.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Yoko Ono is 92 today. She is also a great artist whose dignity and compassion in the face of more than half a century of unearned disdain, much of it unequivocally racist and/or misogynistic in character, is genuinely astonishing.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

fuck you yankee journoooooooooooooos

submitted 4 days ago • 234 comments

“learn how to ask AI models the right questions” strongly implies a level of subject matter expertise which is indistinguishable from education.

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

“DEI” literally isn’t called that in Britain, so her using that term is just her signalling “I’m a shithead dilettante who spends all day on Twitter”

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Good to see so many wise replies to this: that people hate Ozempic because they think being fat is a moral sin and that the solution to it should be for the sinning fatties to be punished.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Interestingly, the one civilisational threat to democracy she didn't mention are the ACTUAL TANKS rolling Westward.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

The bare minimum of research would have uncovered that this is exactly what the AP's style guide does for 'the Czech Republic'. You shouldn't be proud to be lazy and parochial.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is so antithetical to the English legal tradition that they killed Charles I about it, and then they couped James II

submitted 8 days ago • 96 comments

every time you read the words “announced plans for”, you should replace them with “hesitated to act on”, because that’s what’s happening here

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

The whole “Rachel from Accounts” thing is just a cut-price But Her Emails and you can tell this by how manic the coverage from the Beeb et al is getting

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Coming around to the idea that the inherent reactionary nature of social media, especially Twitter, murdered the nascent American left movement so effectively it might as well have been designed to do so

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

Labour should be using the need to increase defence spending as a off-ramp for their promises on tax, not letting their defence policy (like everything else) be constrained by their promises on tax.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments