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The funniest part about South African politics is the white minority party spending decades upon decades trying to find a way to broaden their electoral base just to achieve virtually the same results they did in 1994 every single time.
The funniest part about South African politics is the white minority party spending decades upon decades trying to find a way to broaden their electoral base just to achieve virtually the same results they did in 1994 every single time.
The entire threat in America is revoking all your ruling class privileges, which is not small thing to sacrifice
Try explaining this to people in 1985. You have an Everything Device that can get you anything you want, but also both major parties are the actual, for real National Front who have sold everything Britain owns, because they do not want to show government could improve lives.
Try explaining this to people in 1985. You have an Everything Device that can get you anything you want, but also both major parties are the actual, for real National Front who have sold everything Britain owns, because they do not want to show government could improve lives.
The entire point of the backlash and the crackdown is to emphasise that if you take part in it, your ruling class privileges are revoked, with the (probably not real) possibility that this is for the rest of your life.
I’m sorry but it’s objectively hilarious that people who spent years calling students snowflakes ended up deploying snipers against them because they were scared of slogans.
I’m sorry but it’s objectively hilarious that people who spent years calling students snowflakes ended up deploying snipers against them because they were scared of slogans.
I am absolutely fine with the Iranian leader being replaced by a different one, it is beneath “what will I have for breakfast to tonorrow”, so what exactly is going on psychologically, that professionals say things like this.
Obviously it was always like this and the tolerance on offer was always highly conditional on not inconveniencing people who actually matter. It’s just a bit jarring to realise that society really is as starkly divided into people who matter and people who don’t, as it plainly is
Steve Albini spoke eloquently about this, about our adolescence where we all thought we could happily cosplay as dangerously humorous Edgelords not understanding that history isn’t constant improvement, it’s a constant fight against reaction that has everything on their side.
I’m 1977, right at the end of Gen X and I’ve had to adapt from what I thought was a constantly improving world where everyone was down with basic decency extended to everyone, to one where all the important people are appalling cunts willing to shit on anyone for a headline.
I’m 1977, right at the end of Gen X and I’ve had to adapt from what I thought was a constantly improving world where everyone was down with basic decency extended to everyone, to one where all the important people are appalling cunts willing to shit on anyone for a headline.
Contrary to the mythos of 1968, students are rarely at the forefront of social change. Universities are conservative institutions & students are generally compliant. If you've lost the campus, it isn't because of "woke" but because you've already lost society more generally.
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@flying_rodent Reminds me of Sam. Everybody's pal. He was about 20 when the vet caught up with him.
@jondrytay @flying_rodent 1969 GenXer, me. Poll tax 'riots' > end of Thatcher > Berlin wall > Castle Morton > end of history. All was heading in a more international direction. Ecstacy > lud-dup > no footy violence > tidy biscuits. And then... Blair > War > .....WTF - All the rest is f-in backwards
@flying_rodent just throwing this out there but maybe, just maybe, the aggressive dishonest defence of genocidal fascism might push a few people to support the bad team, and maybe there's a really easy way to avoid that happening
@flying_rodent Gen X in particular grew up thinking it was left wing and not bigoted, and still clings to those labels despite the mountain of available evidence.
@flying_rodent I’m 1960. Imagine how I feel. My children are, I guess, millennials (1991-99) but have done me proud politically.
@flying_rodent I get that, I get hangry as well 😏
@flying_rodent It's been a lifetime of watching our societal Prisoner's Dilemma collapse like those beachside cliffs in a global-warming-powered hurricane.
@flying_rodent Personally I think the general quality of this era's music is exceptional and I would argue that because of that its difficult to stand out. There was so much utter dross in the 60s, 70, 80s and 90s with the 90s being particularly bad. But that's a Personal middle-aged view
@flying_rodent Unprecedented apparently
@flying_rodent The one with Bon Iver's quite good.
@flying_rodent I always found Pet Shop Boys to be far worse than disappointing even when I wasn't old.
@flying_rodent Ha ha makes you want to say- there are no rules lads. Just interpretations in the minds of 400 bad faith wankers who work within a square mile of each other. I mean, these rubes didn’t think they got into journalism to objectively report and analyse did they? ROFL
@flying_rodent I love how they have to permanently disable comments under Johnathan Freedland's columns because it's just too much work for the comments editors to play whack-a-mole trying to delete every instance of Freedland's own fans calling him a dumb bastard.
Yes the whole parenting thing is going fine and it’s wonderful, but on the other hand I was at the dentist’s today and at some stage as I was in the chair getting holes drilled in my skull, it occurred to me that this was the most relaxed I’d felt in weeks, maybe months.
@flying_rodent I like to use vicky as a barometer of shit-lib sensible opinion and the verdict is she had it coming so tough luck 🤷♀️
@flying_rodent His comment is spot on that the issue is cultural not any specific take on Swift. TOTP was a behemoth of culture and pop music was… well popular to the masses but now we all stuck in our phoned finding stuff we hate!
@flying_rodent Notice that the argument has shifted from 'these protests are inherently antisemitic and hate jews as jews and are dangerous for any jew to be around' to 'oh yeah scoff of course the tokens who agree with it' - okay, then sorry, the former isn't true then, is it.
@BrandyLJensen @flying_rodent This is a whole extra level, but it reminds me of a meeting where HR told us our benefits were getting worse and finishing by reminding us we can still do online therapy if we don't like it.