The framing of the headline "social media has ruined politics" how about shitty MPs and terrible client journalism and no accountability has ruined politics. Social media has just exposed it
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The framing of the headline "social media has ruined politics" how about shitty MPs and terrible client journalism and no accountability has ruined politics. Social media has just exposed it
None of the people who have "vowed" to stop paying will actually do it. Just clowns shouting at clouds. I wish they would though and get themselves off to prison. Labour could make it a terrorism offence no wait that's only lefty causes - the right wing opinions are sacrosanct. ("Valid")
I posted it light heartedly but actually it's not funny because the best version of you exists you just can't get it to the front of the queue cos life won't let you 😭
For me it also includes thinking of the perfect answer later and wishing I had said that 🤣 The french have a term for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esp...
Widgy is what makes it cut through your soul every time 🤣
Ok but the post in your screen shot literally says "encourage BBC journalists" which is meaningless and not at all what you're saying now. Regardless if the answer is "I don't know how" and the BBC is not fit for purpose, then protecting it in the hope it gets better one day seems, naïve at best.
How do you encourage BBC journalists? Seriously what's the process? I'll do it now if you can define it. I'm sure many of them despair at what the BBC is doing. Some vague concept of "encouraging" is basically writing strongly worded letters whilst Farage throws Molotov cocktails.
Fight for what though? Because right now they are client journalism for a terrible government, genocide deniers, and elevating far right minority voices. Why fight for that let the billionaires do it and I'll save my licence fee thanks.
The Russel Brand line hurts because it was when he was right on the cusp of being meaningfully positioned to create change and he chose.... Poorly.
It's in the original post
It's ok for meidas to steal from creators if I like the content they steal and I watch for free. I won't watch it on an oligarch owned platform that pays for it because I am a good person.
It's better there cos you can read Nazi stuff and also see boobs
This is *chefs kiss* level comment
Plus any Thin White Duke remix of anything at all
Sorry link probably helps m.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBn...
Corner shop - Brimful of Asha
I like when Chrome tells me about unsafe passwords for 10.0.0.* Addresses
Knew about the guitars thing from old twitter days. Didn't know you could play and sing. You're one of "those" people that is just good and I love your books and now I hate you. Subscribed to your YouTube channel obvs
Same!
Titanfall?
If only journalists at a newspaper (say for example, The Guardian, did journalism rather than just repeat statements and phrases uncritcally and without analysis.
This feels like something that can be empirically assessed based on historical information rather than "opponents say" but then how can we expect the government to function in this way 😭
You've got this go smash your day 🥰
OhMyGod When I get paid in sending you a gift love that so much
Oh god please help me
Oh wait you were pointing out the mistake shit fuck I'm a moron
Explain it like I'm 5 🙈 cos I missed it and every day can be a school day 🤗
Heart Attack! With Neil Butterchanan
Yes I spotted that - I wonder if AI fail or user error on prompt. Either way, joke only works if you spell it right 🤣
Your threads are always incredible I'm doing this right now 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
She knows
Some dude was stanning for Newsom saying we should support him regardless and use it to change other states and I asked "how exactly" and he blocked me, so, yeah
You cannot achieve ANY of what you wrote by blindly supporting Newsom. Describe a process that achieves what you describe by supporting Newsom?
Ok that's meaningless without qualifying HOW to do that. You can't encourage a state. What's the pathway from holding your nose and supporting Newsom to influencing your local democratic representatives?
How?
I've been using ad blocking DNS with some success, it does break some paywalled sites sometimes but it's pretty good at filtering out the crap before it even loads dnsforge.de is the latest one I'm using seems really good
Got to enjoy that holiday first tho - they are still doing "Strongly worded letters" whilst Trump flings grenades
So close to getting it 🤣
Perfect chance for someone to sing "come on cuff my hands"
Honestly though. "How can we make this terrible product worse?" "Force people towards voice control?" "Yep basically nobody wants that, let's fucking gooooooo"
"check your junk folder" nah mate not there cos some absolutely terrible coding decision means it didn't go to junk it went to dev/null
Do everything - EVERYTHING - that Microsoft say you have to do - watch emails go, not into junk - but just - disappear. If I'm paying for a service and they are just unilaterally deleting emails that I want.... Yeah not a fond memory
25 years working for an email software company - email deliverability is one of if not the most problematic things about email. Vast megacorps like Google and MS ignore standards and protocols and do what they think is right.
The AP bending the knee was not on my bingo card but oh well, app uninstalled and unfollowed, well done for failing to meet the moment. I'm quite sure this is the journalism you dreamt about doing.
Leather chaps, no pants
Classic "It's the hope that kills you" moment
Narrators Voice: it's not Adam Schiff
It's not concerning except the media wants it to be so people lap it up like clueless fools. It's "look! a squirrel!" so we don't notice the real problems.
Whilst we shit all over each other about the success of the trump take egg campaign, Trump doesn't take egg he takes EVERYTHING We are so busy navel gazing we aren't getting anywhere - I very much direct this criticism at myself as well. UK politics exactly the same. Purity tests all the way
My problem with this take; that it presupposes someone on blue sky making stupid political posts is expected to trigger a fundamental sea change in Dem party policy. It was a silly thing obviously. Trump Take egg is not and never was a problem. AND SO
You think a poster on blue sky influences Democratic party messaging to that extent,?. "trump take egg" was not the problem it's embarrassing you even give it any weight never mind that much. The state of it, blame everyone except the spineless fucks in power.
Ah no so see I've checked your profile and you do the exact same thing you criticise- "the Washington post endorsed this" is fundamentally the same as "trump takes egg" so yeah nah jump off that high horse bud. Save your ire for where it matters
So you're saying you have a better approach you're using? Or you're just one of those "I told you so" fuckers?
It's called sunk cost fallacy and I think that's something a person who worked on loads of campaigns should know
He blocked you but fair play this post is almost poetry
Landlord says what? Brad my man. Log off and be happy with all your lovely money taken from people less well off than you. Cos you're showing your colours and it isn't a good look.
I regret that I can only like this once
Mate don't get me started I'll go all day on this 🤣 parasites profiting from a basic human right to have housing.
This.
Tell me you're a landlord without telling me you're a landlord. Winston Churchill nailed it - "He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived"
Won't somebody please think of the wealthy landlords - the most downtrodden of all in this mess.
I can't agree with the wish for him to die by drone strike. But he is a fucking ghoul and he deserves to live a life of regret I just don't think he's capable of it, cos, sociopath.
So it's a thing for sure because if you click through you get
It's so weird to have grown up in a society that told me Engels and Marx writings were monstrous and dangerous and then read them as an adult and go fuck yeah that's absolutely nailed on accurate
Huuuuyyyyuuuuughhhh
Hugh Laurie I meant 🙈😂
He's probably worth at least 8 figures so maybe in the same region as Grant - but fuck Hugh Grant anyway
This is a perfect response. Fetishizing the very technology that will (if he is correct) render him utterly useless. Certain circular logic there. Regardless A I doesn't exist and can't create art but sure @joshrottenberg.bsky.social go of
I'm not saying he or Biden didn't do anything good - I'm saying the time for their approach ended 3 years ago and the Dems need to catch up.
Then we got Trump, Pirro, Kennedy, Patel, Bongino, mass incarceration concentration camps, gutting of healthcare, education, crackdown on speech control of the media and well... Yeah maybe time for the old guard to bow out
Nobody wants this type of politics any more. That's it. Pragmatism gets us death and cancer and measles you can keep it
I feel that in that relationship only one person is going through a painful divorce and the other is skipping around all day full of joy...
Shit wait I meant Fern Gully already been said 🤣
It's a complete copy of Pocahontas
My dad had a shit bag. I used to have to change it along with his piss bag. And wash him and feed him. I don't care that you called me those things because he would have laughed because he had a dark sense of humour and used to call himself a cripple spastic. Reflect on your own use of words.
I genuinely believe if we met in person we would agree on almost everything. I think you are looking for enemies in the wrong place there are plenty to choose from.
Oh and I am not centrist My political manifesto would be as a start: Eat the rich Transfer all landlord owned properties into government ownership Nobody should have too much and nobody should have not enough.
When did I say anything about mental problems? I didn't throw constant sexual slurs and profanities. I didn't vote for genocides. I voted against the party denying poor children food. If you think not voting absolves you of responsibility then by all means wrap yourself in that blanket.
On a less antagonistic note where was I casually ableist because I certainly didn't intend that and wouldn't want to do it again and I fucking swear this isn't sarcasm this is me wanting to reflect and improve
Calls me: A wet belllend A cunt A worthless bag of shit Says I'm casually ableist and tries to claim the moral high ground Don't try to act superior. You live in this society and either contribute or benefit so guess what, you're responsible too - you wet bellend bag of shit cunt.
That's... Insane you know that right? blaming me for wanting rid of the Tories does not make me responsible for what Labour are doing. They are not rhetorical questions.
Our electoral system needs to go in the bin and our media needs to go in the bin. Until then I don't see how I have any choice except to vote for the least worst instead of vote for what I want.
Reform has the support of a massive global media ecosystem and gets hugely disproportionate coverage and grows influence. Research shows most voters want green but the BBC and Daily Mail convince them they want reform.
Right see now finally someone has engaged with the question and not just fucking hating on me. I constantly hassle my MP. I would fucking love it if he defected away. Labour are fucking bullshit. What you're describing is what reform are doing - but....
I don't want the fucking pat on the back you absolute cretin. I want to know what I should do differently. Next time. What I should have done differently last time. Fucking easy to shit on me, nobody can give me an answer to that question though.
Why do I have to pick one? I like the idea of answers for both questions. I am getting abuse from a whole bunch of people that I align with on issues - because I voted against the Tories. It's easy to shit on people. It's what the Tories and Labour do.
Also nobody has explained anything other than somehow I'm a cunt for voting to get rid of the biggest piece of shit Tort cunt that was my MP.
I don't want you fucking approval you absolute melt I want to know what to do differently and how to make change because shitting on people and blue sky isn't going to do much regardless of how much that's your hobby.
You are probably right but at least they are not a multimillionaire cunt with an heated outdoor swimming pool and at least they vote on the right side of most issues. I can't change the system.
Because I looked at your profile and I think we are aligned. I don't think my MP can change anything and I don't think I will vote for the many way. I wanted the Tory cunt gone. I happened to get lucky and have a super progressive MP. Labour under Starmer can fuck all the way off.
My current options are vote or don't vote. I hate that but that's how it is. I will not defend and have not defended Labour I will stand by someone who is aligned with my values. I think you are. So what do we do to change things?
You're reading things I'm not writing. I don't know why. Look at what I am saying not what you think I'm saying. I've been lobbying my MP against every shitty thing labour are doing And you're calling me an absolute cunt
I fucking wish he would because I would respect him more. What's the solution? You can shit on me for voting for a progressive liberal left leaning MP all you want - but what's the way forward that lets me vote with my conscience?
I would vote green. Our system means it would be a wasted vote. I hold my nose and I vote for the one that's least shit. What should I do instead?
So if I vote for the party that I support in my constituency that has absolutely no chance of getting elected given the electoral system - what does that achieve? By the way my MP has an impeccable voting record on trans rights, Israel, etc. as in he's voting left. How am I supporting bigotry?
They don't have my vote no matter what I've asked several others given the choice between a progressive labour MP candidate or the incumbent hard right Tory who should I have voted for? We don't vote for the prime minister we vote for our MP.
Ok so a meaningless protest vote that achieves nothing because our system fundamentally prevents that vote from having any value. That's childish thinking I'll vote green and the Tories will get re-elected. Give me a real solution?
How would you change it - how are you changing it? Shitting on me for participating in the system that we have isn't any meaningful activism. What's the plan cos I'll get behind it instantly
As a not gullible fucker like me - how will you create changes?
