This guy went all in. You could suspend him naked over hot coals and be wouldn’t still admit he was wrong. Let’s all have a chicken ticket masala in his honour
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This guy went all in. You could suspend him naked over hot coals and be wouldn’t still admit he was wrong. Let’s all have a chicken ticket masala in his honour
Minor figure in real-world politics, big on far-right X
It is astonishing how badly suited Keir Starmer is to the current moment. Just astonishing
Easy or hard is not the issue
“Allowed”? There’s no “allowed”
But you follow JD Vance. No need for hypotheticals
Have you ever heard the show? Are you under the impression that it’s called Bust-Ups with Bigots? That’s really not the ethos
Go for it. I just find it odd and fruitless
Not snooty at all. I just don’t see the point in actively consuming views you hate when those same views are in the news every day
We try not to have transphobes, homophobes, racists or antisemites on the show
I just think it’s odd. There’s no need unless you’re a journalist or activist. If something’s important you’ll find out about it. Not following bigots is good hygiene
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
I’ve engaged one on one with many GCs in an attempt to persuade and it turns out they all just hate trans people so I never got anywhere
I think I’d have known what Hitler was up to without subscribing to his newsletter
It’s racist against British people of Indian and Pakistani origin ya big dummy. They’re British too
Will do
Yes!
It’s just not on
I had a 90s indie (not Britpop) phase recently and I was surprised by how patchy so many fondly remembered albums were by comparison. Lots of half-great records
If I were trying to win elections and arguments, I simply would be doing everything I could to move UK political conversation away from a website run by an avowed enemy who believes and writes this stuff about me:
Yes definitely. Different in many ways but they have the same appeal to me: energy, melody, charisma, wit
I'm catching up on recent releases and it's all good so far except for the ongoing habit of giving albums lower-case (moisturizer, I quit) or upper-case (EURO-COUNTRY, SABLE fABLE) titles for no apparent reason, which I refuse to humour
Is this a post from the 1980s?
Not to say it's purely retro but Wet Leg's Moisturizer could almost have been NME's album of the year in 1993, couldn't it? It's sharper and more consistent than most indie-rock albums of that period. Incredibly tight.
Oh my god he called the UK "an isolated whites-only culture" so the wrongness is profound
Of course he is
I just filled in a form for a book festival and under social media profiles they had an option for X but not Bluesky. Stuff like that annoys me
It was proper nought-to-sixty nuclear-option overreaction so I imagine it's not their first time
Meta sucks but its owner is not a fascist explicitly and personally promoting fascism
I think there are some valid exceptions. If you're Hope Not Hate, for example, you need to keep an eye on things. But that's not most people
I like Coldplay
Oh really? I've never heard of her before
Like I said, I'm totally tuned out so didn't know what he meant by monetisation
I experienced that on X more than once but I've only seen isolated ones on Bluesky. Are they here in force?
I think he's one of the few people whose work actually justifies it. He's only there to counter disinformation and draw attention to what is really going on. I'm not on it anymore so don't know anything about monetisation
It's great. You can kill a pile-on before it starts
We can all get ratty on social media but I think if you're explictly saying that you're going to direct tens of thousands of people to abuse someone, then you've lost it
Normally when people start a pile-on they pretend they're not doing it. Yesterday, for the first time ever, somebody boasted that she was doing exactly that and her followers would "educate" me, forgetting that the block function exists. Extraordinary the way some people behave
The persistent idea that something can only be British cuisine if it’s invented by white people, despite south asian and afro-caribbean influences being an inextricable part of British culture for centuries, is one of the most pervasive casually racist ideas the US has about the UK.
Oops you've done a racism
She makes good choices. Not all her films are good but they're all purposeful. And she did Mother! at the height of her fame, which I love her for
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
I think we have a unified field theory of Jennifer Lawrence. She also plays working class in Joy and Causeway. Even in X-Men, she's adopted by a rich family when she breaks into their mansion looking for food. Not sure she's ever played someone born into money
The lyrics of Lou Reed’s song Sick of You (from New York, 1989) floated into my mind. Quite an uncanny set of scenarios.
![[Verse 4] They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps And died being treated at Mt. Sinai And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill Some wired doctor prescribed for stress My arms and legs are shrunk, the food all has lumps They discovered some animal no one's ever seen It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire After running over Rudy Giuliani They say the President's dead, no one can find his head It's been missing now for weeks But no one noticed it, he had seemed so fit I'm sick of it I'm sick of you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwb7aulelog3wpb6o3nwx33e/bafkreicp6jcayvbnnedaksdpol5vuyu72amqylod3gsw6nshwpnoegsmza@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I wonder if that’s related to her own upbringing. She doesn’t come from money
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I mean he was explicitly modelled on a Likud leader during Claremont’s run
I just remembered Everything Everywhere as another big movie where the characters are financially struggling. More non-bougie stories!
Haven’t seen it. Is their wealth necessary for the plot?
I agree the consequences are the most important thing. But miasma theory is a good example of how fucking weird his beliefs are
One of the reasons I love No Hard Feelings is that Jennifer Lawrence’s character worries about money, not having a car, fighting to keep her house. Shockingly rare in mainstream movies
I find it odd to insist that every single one of RFK’s myriad anti-science beliefs and conspiracy theories without exception stems from eugenics but if someone believes that then I don’t feel like arguing about it
I’m not though. I didn’t say that at all. I think those ideas are running through the Trump administration but so is other weird shit
There has so far been no AI generated bestselling book. No AI generated hit record. No AI generated blockbuster film or TV show. No evidence yet in fact that there is any commercial demand at all for individual AI generated artworks. But there HAVE been 1,000 pieces about how inevitable they are
I was just rejecting the implication that I think he’s a “complicated dude” and therefore not that bad. I think he’s as bad as it gets
I see where this is going. You’re going to say everything is eugenics. OK
I’m surprised that people think calling him a eugenicist (which he is) explains all of his anti-science beliefs and are furious that I think there’s more going on. He’s a notorious crackpot and conspiracy theorist
For example his belief that antidepressants cause school shootings. That’s crank shit that is not directly related to eugenics
Rearranging my freshman writing syllabus so we can spend a day discussing this.
It’s not a clinical diagnosis. Let’s say he believes in a lot of things that aren’t true and doesn’t care if his beliefs kill people
Absolutely. We agree. Cheers man
He’s a maniac. I thought that was a given
Cool no problem
You are an expert on this. Do you think that eugenics is a sufficient explanation for all his wackadoo beliefs? That doesn’t seem enough to me
You’re arguing with something I never said. He’s a maniac who’s going to kill a lot of people. He should be out of a job if not in jail
An idea can be coherent but wrong
That is certainly one strand of his thinking. I didn’t imagine that saying he is not ONLY a eugenicist would be contentious
Of course. Never said it wasn’t. Just said that RFK’s beliefs are wilder and more incoherent than just eugenics
Y’all know this but “Antizionism isn’t antisemitism” doesn’t mean “I can be antisemitic and as long as I’m antizionist too it’s fine”. I made the mistake of clicking to see the replies on a post about antisemitism and—whew.
We cannot stigmatise AI music hard enough
One very funny consequence of Kemi Badenoch’s decades-long campaign of insisting that her A-level grades don’t reflect her true ability, something no-one cares about other than her personally, is that she may be the only politician in Britain whose A-level grades are a matter of public record.
Nietzsche seems like a cool and sensible guy. Did he write anything else?
He makes sense because nothing makes sense. It’s crackpot city
No, people like you are. You’ve just clarified that you don’t believe trans rights are real. I don’t see how activists being polite would have helped. Just drop the bullshit
Well I did say Christian nationalism
Right, so you don’t believe in trans rights as a concept. In that case stop pretending the issue was activist “overreach” or being rude online
Different groups require additional rights. Men, for example, do not need abortion rights. Able-bodied people don’t need wheelchair access. And so on
The thing that keeps me coming back to the Newsom stuff is that Democrats who object to our saying we'd never vote for him are refusing to treat us as ordinary voters who need to be won over, like any other demographic.
It's like remembering that Roald Dahl edited the racist bits out of *Charlie & the Chocolate Factory* for the second edition, *in 1973*, because it was already clear that they were too racist to stay... www.theguardian.com/books/2017/s...
Bishops sit in the legislature!
You can’t starve them of oxygen, that’s a fantasy. Although I agree the coverage is disproportionate
Without the fundamental right to live as your gender there are no trans rights. You know this of course
The “same rights as everyone else” are not trans rights. It would be like saying before gay marriage was legal that a gay man had the same right to marry a woman as any other man
People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”
What form of trans rights would be acceptable to you? I suspect none
Didn’t you call them chavs and yobs for 20 years until you realised you could ventriloquise your posh-boy racism through them?
Clashing with police when a protest outside Gail’s turns nasty
The holes are so the asylum-seekers can get through
It's sub-Giles Coren "witty" fulminating
No problem. Ian covered Whitehouse in the BBFC episode but there's a lot more to be said about her campaign and its role in right-wing politics. And as someone said to me, Life of Brian's biggest problem now would be right-wing people saying "Why don't you mock Muhammad as well?"
I read a harrowing Matt Goodwin blogpost about it
There's no point asking questions of such transparent nonsense. Just point and laugh
Sadly you can't anymore because of woke. I googled and regular white bread appears to be available from every supermarket but that's just a woke trap, don't be fooled
Building underground networks where true patriots can exchange samizdat slices of Hovis Soft White beyond the tyrannical gaze of Big Sourdough
#neverforget
The OP isn't saying that there's no connection to fascism or eugenics, only that those ideologies are insufficient to explain all the ways in which RFK is wrecking public health. He's more of a crank than an ideologue.
Eugenics is specifically about breeding: who has children and who doesn't. I don't think that covers all of RFK's batshit prejudices and superstitions although it may be one component
What he's doing is far more incoherent and woo-woo than eugenics
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.