primeshade.bsky.social
"Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope.
The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away."
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I still don't understand how that terrifying rabbit death porn managed to swerve an 'X' rating.
(Not that it traumatised me as an 8-year-old or anything...)
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February 2025: "Just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite."
June 2025: "SHUT THAT GUY UP NOW"
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I bet she's thinking of Jedi. 🤦♂️
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Welcome back anytime. 👍
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Dork MAGA.
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No doubt the local MP will have something to say about thi...
Ah, sh*t. 🤦♂️
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Matt Vickers voted to increase National Insurance for employers *and* employees in 2021.
I don't remember him calling it a "jobs tax" then? 🤔
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Anyone would think Mike Read was a... Oh, he is.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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Steward's enquiry:
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This really is the Beatles Crucifixion episode.
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Hmm... I still think "A baby being born to the overkill" is one of the most abysmal lines ever. 😬
Decent tune, though!
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There's a fair chance that I will still be alive when Donald Trump ceases to be.
If that day comes, I will remember this one.
And then I will laugh my hole off.
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Jeff Bezos must be tearing his hair out right now.
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Frankly, I think it would be quite cruel to make children live anywhere near these miserable old f*ckers.
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I believe the medical term is 'throatum'.
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Also, he hasn't "gone Trump" and questioned the validity of any election results, or stated an intention to be a (temporary) dictator.
Not yet, anyway...
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Possibly because Farage is inextricably associated with the 2016 referendum, which saw a higher turnout than most general elections. And like all Brexit fans, he's spent the last decade bleating about democracy being thwarted by evil remainers.
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I suspect Republicans just want the party to be in power, and don't much care whom or what they have to support as long as it achieves that objective.
See also: Tories.
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They're on the other place, if you want to take it up with them:
@Int_IDEA
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Evidence of an opinion seems like a rather pointless thing to ask for, but OK:
www.idea.int/sites/defaul...
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
(p. 58 - screenshot below)
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You mean you disagree. That doesn't make it nonsense.
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Ironic that you mention Germany. What electoral system enabled the far right to gain absolute power there? 🤔
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The potential for extreme parties to gain significant influence is a fairly conventional argument against PR.
Intellectually, it's a lot easier to support than FPTP. In practice though, I'd be careful what you wish for.
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Are you arguing *for* PR because it might benefit the far right? 🤨
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I don't buy this notion that Farage is inexorably heading towards Downing Street. Reform's vote share last year was barely 2% higher than UKIP's 10 years ago - hardly a surge, despite a widely hated government and little enthusiasm for the opposition.
Also, never bet against a Tory revival...
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Polls don't account for vote distribution across different constituencies though, let alone tactical voting. The question is invariably "if a general election were held tomorrow, which party would you vote *for*?"
If asked which parties people would vote *against*, Reform would be near the top.
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Reform would have far more MPs if we had proportional representation. 😬
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Imagine spending your birthday doing shit like that. 🤦♂️
Proof, if it were needed*, that Laurence Fox has no friends.
* It wasn't.
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Ill-mannered people are like flies on a summer day: they always find a way in, and one can never quite get them to leave.
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This possibly marks me as a terrible person, but I still can't resist occasionally hopping back on Sh*tter to tell the blue-tick Faragettes how utterly moronic they are. 🤷♂️
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Springsteen, 2025: "Told you."
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Springsteen, 1985: "Blind faith in your leaders will get you killed."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=utaY...
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The chair couldn't take it anymore.
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If, according to these Brexit ultras, "we never actually have" left then logically, it makes sense to rejoin.
They're never going to be happy anyway, so the rest of us might as well be.
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Greg Hands was still posting that 2010 Liam Byrne note as recently as last year...
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Tory MPs call Badenoch the gaffer. She thinks it's a compliment.
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No-one ever believes they're the baddies, do they? If they did, they wouldn't be.
What they believe, or have been led to believe, is that other people are trying to take something away (money, freedom, sovereignty, social privilege, guns... whatever) - which makes *them* the baddies.
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That's a very fair point, and I'm inclined to agree with it.
But I do wonder how it will end. And I'm guessing: not well.
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At some point, each of us is going to have to decide whether to row back from the Pavlovian hatred of anyone who isn't on 'our' side, or just to concede that we're now a permanently polarised species hellbent on taking ever-larger lumps out of each other.
Sadly, my money would be on the latter. 🤷♂️
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that bad people never surround themselves with good people.
Exhibit A:
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Seriously dude: do your "America First" thing and leave the rest of us alone.
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Biden's greatest achievement was briefly to remind the world that a US president could just get on with their job, without consuming the whole world's bandwidth on a daily basis.
It's ironic that a staunch isolationist like Trump keeps getting in every other country's face like a pissed up wasp.
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Greed > Islamophobia
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FFS he's playing 12-D chess that's why you fakenews libs can't make sense of it #MAGA
(Or something.)
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No. This can only be one of three things (none of them good):
1. Starmer doesn't believe this shit; he's just cynically saying it to appeal to the red wall.
2. He does believe it, and he believed it five years ago - but cynically didn't say it, to appeal to Labour Party members.
3.
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Thus continues Starmer's inexplicable mission to be no things to all people. 🤦♂️