See also, the claim "Hamas beheaded forty babies" on October 7th.
Hamas fighters murdered plenty of civilians that day, but the reason people shared the baby misinformation is because they wanted everyone to be scandalised and not focus on the facts. It's a propaganda technique.
thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max
6000 SUX, an American tradition.
A graphic labeled The Mood Meter with axes labeled Low Energy to High Energy and Unpleasant to Pleasant. The Low Energy/Unpleasant corner is labeled “Mom would be sad” and the High Energy/Pleasant corner is labeled “Let’s fucking goooo”
Markets ping-ponging between bottom left and top right corner every time someone schedules or cancels a meeting about Iran
This is genuinely vile.
What would we be saying now if it transpired that e.g. Seumas Milne had been passing privileged info to foreign criminals linked to intelligence services, and had non-transparent exposure to Russian oligarchs and Chinese business interests? And we didn’t make that guy an ambassador.
On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand, no-one powerful - not Canute, not Titus, not Pompey - was ever held in check by someone reminding them that they were a mere mortal.
As far as I can tell, nobody protesting her mentioned Mahmood's race or denied that she could ever experience racism - Mahmood instead pretended that not being white meant she couldn't possibly be prejudiced.
"This shit is exactly why the centrality of identity in political analysis is so dangerous"
I'm pretty sure Franz Fanon and loads of other scholars have published on the phenomena of people from marginalised populations working with and eventually identifying with the group that oppresses them.
The MoS can reveal that as far back as 2023 senior Labour shadow ministers were handed a detailed briefing on Mandelson by British security services, amid fears he was gaining growing control over Sir Keir's operation. According to both Labour and security sources, the party leader's team received the detailed dossiers which highlighted Mandelson's links with Epstein, his targeting by Russian intelligence and his relationship with Putin allies. They dealt specifically with the singling out of UK politicians by Russian state actors, with particular attention on Mandelson's relationship with Epstein dating back to 2006, which were reportedly closely monitored by Russian security services. A British security source said: 'The briefings to Starmer's team were first provided in 2023, and continued into 2024. They included information on his relationship with Epstein and targeting by Russian intelligence. 'They pre-dated the Prime Minister's decision to appoint Mandelson. There is no way Starmer was not aware of the risks associated with the appointment.'
I mean
Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections
The whole 'Starmer only appointed Mandelson because he knew he was dodgy and Trump would like him' line only works if you ignore:
a) the fact that Trump almost vetoed the appointment himself.
b) Labour Together.
It's unserious as a claim.
Again, where the fuck have AAPG, GSA, and AGU *been* in raising alarm about this shit?
All three geological and geophysical professional societies have *direct interests* in at least getting the public aware of what an absolute disaster the targeting of civilian energy infrastructure is.
Norman Rockwell painting: guy standing up at town hall meeting
The Trump administration is even worse than I thought it would be
It’s the worst part of social media. If you say you’re surprised, others say it was obvious. If you say things are different than you expected, others say you should have always expected it. If you say you didn’t know something, others say it was common knowledge.
I block people who engage in this.
parkermolloy mehdi hasan 54m It's been wild to see people piling on @mehdirhasan on here simply for saying that as bad as he thought Trump would be, it's been even worse. He didn't say anything wrong. So many of you are just looking for a reason to punch left and smear him that you're letting your media literacy go by the wayside. He never downplayed the danger of Trump in 2024. A bunch of you are just making things up. Knock it off. 1 / 6 ansapphire.ap 28m VP Harris and Black women voters warned people. Once again our voices were ignored. Now Medhi and people like him are pretending that never happened. parkermolloy 11m · Author This is the type of braindead crap I'm talking about. What tf do you mean Mehdi "ignored" warnings? No, he didn't. That's just not a thing that happened. You're just making that up. He made a video where he said that as bad as he thought the Trump administration was going to be (really, really bad), it's even worse. That's not "ignoring" anyone. Jesus Christ, lady. ansapphire.ap 3m We warned you it would be exactly like this. The Left and Medhi refused to listen. Everything that is happening was totally expected. It was even written down in Project 2025. The Left said we don’t care. All that matters is Gaza. The one thing we care about.
Posted this same thing on Threads, and the responses are just absolutely braindead.
This must be that identity politics I’ve heard so much about
The headline "Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes" with the sub header that's not super important, but a picture of Starmer looking like he's just done a little poo in his pants while a tiny union jack is in front of him on a desk.
Anyway I think to summarise today, we only need one image.
Remember when a journalist asked Mandelson about his connection to Epstein and he told them to fuck off and never bring it up again?
He thought he was untouchable and in many ways he was!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I'll be honest with you, people don't like Keir on the door but it's not over this Mandelson thing. They don't like him personally
Great news boss, this Mandelson stuff isn’t cutting through on the doorstep because they already think you’re a cunt
Post something like these attacks on a decent man are nothing but the corrupt, woke civil servants trying to protect their system from the reforming hand of Keir Starmer. Are they loyal to the UK or are they on the Kremlin payroll at this point?
You're thinking 'oh I'm going to be his fall guy aren't I?'
“maybe britain is ungovernable now” is quite funny when we should at least try a PM whose instincts don’t allow them to appoint the best friend of the most notorious sex trafficker in the world as US ambassador before we determine that
Over 18 months as PM. Has collapsed Labour's polling share from low 40s in early 2024 to high teens now. Policy agenda remains unclear. Has fired 2 chiefs of staff, 2 cabinet secs, 4 comms directors, head of FO. Poor relationship with Cabinet and MPs. But somehow this is social media... 🤔
Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
🤝
Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness
Remember when a journalist asked Mandelson about his connection to Epstein and he told them to fuck off and never bring it up again?
He thought he was untouchable and in many ways he was!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's so fucking funny how the starmer defenders have completely bought the idea that if this Robbins character had just spoken up, Mandelson wouldn't have been the golden boy the PM wasn't looking to foist into a plum job as a reward.
James Franco first time? being hanged meme
"The BBC are spreading misinformation and boosting fascism!!"
