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[possiblyunhinged]

It is funny that the flag-shaggers react like Burnham is essentially Mao, and the tote-bag shaggers react like he's basically Mussolini. It is almost as if the far-right and the middle-class contingent of the online left are so chronically online that nuance ceases to exist and everyone involved needs to touch some grass.

Both groups are reading an imaginary room. That is the point. Burnham did not scrape through on a technicality. He got over 50% of the vote in a Reform-target seat. If that shocks you, or you are currently typing out "who would vote for Labour?", I fear you may actually be the problem. And maybe, just maybe, your political worldview is being built less by talking to normal people and more by an algorithm that financially benefits from making everyone look insane.

You cannot spend years talking about this country as if ordinary people are innately racist, right-wing, stupid and morally contaminated by Britishness, then act shocked when those same people do not respond to "far-left or nothing" politics. Never mind that expecting the people you constantly demonise to vote the same way as you is also incredibly delusional.

If the choice is between a broad left/centre-left figure who can actually beat Reform in a Reform-target seat, and an online fantasy where the Greens sweep the country under first past the post, maybe stop acting like pragmatism is fascism.

This is not me saying Burnham is perfect, but I understand bad faith is the natural position online these days. Obviously criticise him. But if your political analysis cannot distinguish between "imperfect Labour man who can beat Reform" and "basically Mussolini", I do think you may need to log off and go and talk to normal people outside.

The majority of British people are decent. Just like any other fucking country. But the internet has become so dominant in shaping our political image that everyone is exhausted, paranoid and convinced the loudest twats online offer a full picture of what the world is like. It's genuinely stupid.

A minority of users make up the majority of content on social media. We are being painted falsehoods that crumble the moment you actually talk to people.

[twizzlesxtyres]

the english fans booing the hydration breaks and when celebs are on screen … i almost feel patriotic

[mymatedave10]

during summer

Every summer I imagine myself sitting in a sunny park, having a little picnic, drinking a beer and reading a book. Then I remember that if it gets past 25-26 C in direct sunlight I feel awful and sweaty and remember that my entire ancestry is Irish on one side and Eastern European on the other. Funnily enough, one of my colleagues doesn’t take off his woolly hat or jumper until it gets to 30. Beer gardens with umbrellas on a slightly breezy sunny day are truly a delight though.

[glitterdustcyclops]

i really feel like this ep of game changer was truly a masterclass in how much the editing affects the comedy

truly nothing hit quite as much as

siobhan: do you think my person knows what the accents to mark the syllables means?

CUT TO

grant: WHAT ARE THESE ACCENT MARKS??? WHAT DO THEY MEAN????

[ghostlybluetrain]

Remember children. Never cross a picket line, and never ever be a scab. Fight for your unions, and support your fellows

[nyancrimew]

oh yeah so ive been kinda busy the last few days and forgot to post about the latest shit ive been up to on here

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World Wa

bypass paywall

Peter Thiel’s ‘Dialog’ network was super-secret. A data leak changed that

A data leak has exposed private data on billionaire Peter Thiel’s “Dialog,” an invitation-only network of high-profile figures.

bwah :3

maia arson crimew 🏴 (@crimew.gay)

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a

[nyancrimew]

Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society

Ranks of his group, Dialog, appear to include several prominent figures in media and entertainment who're put in the same room as C-suite ex

[hppjmxrgosg]

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

[inconspectus]

once my therapist said I used very uncommon and creative phrases and adjectives and i just did not have the heart to tell that Old Lady From A Foreign Small Town that I was translating tumblr speech into our language. so I was like yeah... must be from the books I read...

like girl we have an army of scholars over at tumblr.com crafting our language it's not just little old me I swear

[copperbadge]

I once called a colleague's Borzoi a beautiful Gentle Alien, assuming the term had long since become commonplace outside of Tumblr, and discovered when he burst into delighted laughter at the term that it Had Not. I had to explain to him that I'm not a comedy genius, just repeating a niche meme.

[theconcealedweapon]

A child is punished for moving and making noise.

To avoid more punishment, the child sits still and is quiet. But they have to actively remind themself constantly to sit still and be quiet.

The teacher sees the child sitting still and being quiet. The teacher treats this as the baseline.

Since the child is putting a lot of effort into sitting still and being quiet, doing so distracts from paying attention to what the teacher is teaching. The child then is punished for not paying attention.

The child now knows that they'll be punished no matter what they do. And they can't explain why they struggle, because any attempt to explain is arguing.

[fantashic]

Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"

Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"

[mymatedave10]

In reflection, very true.

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

[cheaphalloweencostume]

you are not going to believe what they did with Books

[parkchanwoohoo]

"A wall of text" baby that's a curb at best

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the other day I read a compelling point that many instances described as illiteracy would actually be more aptly described as aliteracy, meaning an individual has the ability to read but simply chooses not to. great example here, awesome work.

[viralfrog]

[hms-no-fun]

THE SPIRIT OF BUSTER KEATON LIVES ON

[babyjanedough]

This energy only 16 minutes into a 50 minute episode is amazing

[mymatedave10]

So damn funny.

[mymatedave10]

The newest Game Changer episode Rulette 2 has me in tears laughing, great choice of contestants in Josh Ruben, Anna Garcia and Demi Adejuyigbe.

[whetstonefires]

easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.

[libraflyter]

Note: after the end of Roe v Wade in the US, the maternal mortality rate (and the infant mortality rate) are showing clear increases in the states with the strictest anti-abortion laws.

Forcing people to carry high risk or non viable pregnancies to term kills.

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[captainjonnitkessler]

"Modern movements are too fractured, too aimless, with too much infighting and corruption among the leadership. What we need is a revolution, which famously never have any issues with those things" okay then. Good luck I guess

This whole line of thinking comes down to "the current systems and leadership are bad. What we need is a fresh start with only people who are good, and then all the systems will be good". Which is simply not how anything has ever worked!

[traycakes]

"We don't have enough people, funding, and power to bring about changes through elections! We have to do an armed revolution instead which thankfully doesn't require people, funding, or power to pull off."

[chekhovs-raygun]

every now and then when people talk about the glorious revolution i bring up the fact that Nestle has the funds and the will to field their own paramilitary death squads. like if you can't organize your friends well enough to annoy the guys at city hall, what do you think you're going to do against a multinational conglomerate that wants your groundwater.

[1nvalidsyntax]

Had a conversation with one of my really old neighbours who was talking about voting Reform. It really is true that for a lot of people voting for these far right parties are just falling prey to fear mongering genuinely.

She was genuinely worried about people coming over the boarders was going to put too much strain on the economy. She didn't really hate them at all, it's mostly just her being fed catchy headlines and stories meant to scare her. Though I don't doubt she has some racist prejudices from propaganda.

I explained why I didn't think Farage was being genuine and his connections to the super rich and how their actions are far more damaging to the country. It went pretty well it was pretty calm. No shouting or anything.

When I told her about the transphobia (she didn't even know what that word was) that was prevalent in modern British politics she actually agreed that the recent acts not letting trans people in their preferred toilets was a bad thing. She also was against most of the anti-transgender laws that have passed in recent years.

This isn't anything new but in most cases people who are voting for these dangerous parties are just scared and misinformed. This can lead to them believing and voting for dangerous things. But the way to stop this is by talking to them if you have the chance. Especially if you're in a position of privilege.

She walked away feeling a bit more doubt about Reform and I hope that she doesn't vote for them in the next election.