I want to preface my post by saying that when I scream “no shit” into the wind, I am not saying it at the author of this article, more just at culture in general
so yeah, NO SHIT
The news is propoganda, nobody should expect an industry that benefits from the current hierarchy to ever act against that hierarchy’s interests. Don’t appeal to their interest in “journalistic integrity”, remove them and replace them with people who can survive independant of the hierarchy
No shit the liberal parties have a problem courting votes. They do not lose ground to conservatives because people are inherently stupid, they lose ground because they do not campaign. Conservatives understand that you get votes by promising to fix people’s problems; they do it by lying and sowing hate, but they are promising to fix things. Liberals parrot back whatever they hear from the politically engaged upper-middle class and then campaign to conservatives. Our societies are rotting from the inside out and the “progressive” parties spend their effort trying to convince the rot to be less rotten.
We need to remove these complacent politicians and replace them with people who actually fight for a better society. I’m exhausted with the current power base that lets conservatives rip their guts out and turns the other cheek as if a moral victory is all that matters
thank you for coming to my TED talk.
“It was the media!” According to a Labour canvasser and dedicated Marxist who not only is all-in on Corbyn, but is also a strong supporter of his “Lexit” position, ie, Brexit but from the Left.
Yeah, nah, not buying it. I’ll give you credit, though, a Pro-brexit Corbyn diehards go, you definitely picked one who can at least write coherently, at least.
And yeah, Boris is a Racist, homophobic Islamophobe, AND is an Anti-semite to boot. Unashamedly and unrepentantly so. And the right using it to attack Corbyn is hilariously hypocritical.
Corbyn still led his party to an utter defeat, which lies primarily at both his feet, and the feet of the party under his leadership - again, if the populace is that easy to mold and force into the needed shape, all you’re doing is making it inarguable that Corbyn is hilariously incompetent, because he failed to make any impression as the literal face of the party. All the Whataboutism in the world doesn’t change that.
Boris could have eaten a baby on TV and the conservatives would have painted it as Labours fault.
The media would purpetuate the lie.
Voters simply repeat it because that’s all they see and hear, the give no scrutiny.
Corbyn could have been an actual racist and that would not be the reason they lost.
The voters simply aren’t seeing the effects of the conservative government of the past 9 years and saying they are to blame for anything.
That and people are obsessed with Brexit.
Labour were simply powerless to counter any of the lies. They were simply overwhelmed and overpowered.
In that case, you’re basically arguing that Corbyn was utterly incompetent in one of his primary duties, serving as the face of the party, and molding that perception of it.
Just keep repeating it, it won’t make it true. He can never fail, only be failed is just the path to the next big loss, just like people said in 2017, when he lost that election too.
Exact same thing happened with Ed Miliband.
Oh my friend, you do not want to get me started on the tale of Ed Milliband. Unless you’ve already prepared provisions, we’ll be here a long while.
Suffice it to say, he definitely had his ups(Like, when nobody else could, convincing notoriously stupid and self-absorbed but bafflingly popular twit Russel Brand to shut the fuck up for five minutes and listen to someone else long enough to endorse Labour, holding his own against Jeremy Paxman, calling out Cameron for cowardice in facing debates, undermining Cameron’s foreign policy more severely than had been seen from any opposition leader in 100 years) and his downs(Like failing to successfully present an alternative to the tories, and having rings run around him by posh ambulatory yawn and hobbyist pigfucker David Cameron every time they were in the same place.)
And then the very major down of eating shit in the 2015 election because his idea of presenting an alternative to David Oink Oink protracted squeal Cameron was starting every other sentence with “I agree with David” and hoping everyone else stayed with him long enough to get to the “But.”
Ed got done dirty by Murdoch - not some dread spectre of “The Media”, but specifically Murdoch, because he took some big swings at newscorp and at Murdoch’s tax shelters - but I also think that we can’t credit that solely or even primarily for his loss, because the fact remains that he still failed to present an alternative to the tories that people wanted to vote for, which is his responsibility, not the media’s.
(Also don’t get me started on creepy shit goblin Rupert Fucking Murdoch lurking around the media like a fucked up toad swimming in a raw sewage pond, because I’m pretty sure by the end of it I’ll have had to set someone enthusiastically on fire at the least, just to properly illustrate a point.)
Actually worried that my mum got interviewed now…
The racists are coalescing.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 
Most positive outcome of this I can think of is mass emigration of Britain’s young STEM and laborers to remain in the EU leaving a country full of increasingly aging people economically devasted by unregulated import taxes and cost of living inflation.
I’ve been of the mind that the younger generations deserve mobility that allows them to deny economic participation in states they cannot influence by vote. I’m curious how realistic my thinking is about that mobility being much higher in the EU than US.
I was recently at an economic forum given by Dr. Wolff.
He made an interesting argument. The British isles are, in the grand scheme of things, small islands off the coast of north-western Europe. Brexit will basically force them to, at least economically, behave like a relatively small island off the coast of Europe.
Independent island nations exist elsewhere and the parts of the UK that break off will begin to more and more over time resemble them economically.
I simply thought that perspective to be an interesting lense and a dispassionate one.
The history books would show that brexit was gamergate all along.
Hilarious and saddening at the same time. The fact that we must interact with this people on a daily basis.
More saddening really.
Did we make a mistake back in 2014 in thinking that gamergate was just gamergate and we’d just win in the end; when really gamergate was the progenitor to Brexit and Trump?
I think it started even earlier than that when the wealthy elite saw the 99% movement fizzle out and realized how toothless leftism had become