I mean, Wokeism is still very much with us. Too much invested in it for it to disappear, but it is such an easy ideology to take the piss out of. The double standards, the hypocrisy, the stereotyping of minorities/accidental racism. I only wish the film was longer.
I rarely watch TV shows or films twice, but watched American Fiction again last night. Still great, beautiful and poignant. Released in 2023, post peak Great Awokening, it hilariously mocks cringeworthy white middle class liberals. Only a few days left on iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
I regularly thank my lucky stars I was a teenager through the 90s. I'm convinced we've lived through the last great decade. And yet my life now is so much better, even as The World gets progressively worse. I can't see this ever changing.
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Interesting. I thought their publishing new stories only 3 times a day was a masterstroke. Such a shame the paper continues to bend sharp right under Gallagher's watch, firing some excellent columnists in the process.
The playing loud music or speaking to someone on speakerphone on public transport; not picking up your dog's crap. The breakdown in general levels of civility continues apace post-Covid.
Every time those very important pundits tell us that crime is falling (recorded, yes), they wilfully ignore the spike in disorder, the supposedly low-level crime that makes things just that little bit shitter for everyone else: the shoplifting, vandalism, graffiti, fare dodging.
This whole “abolish prisons” thing is like “defund the police” - a jarring oddity of dogma imported wholesale from the United States. Please can we decolonise British politics (from American obsessions)?
I think the EDI agenda has been particularly damaging for diversity/multicultural societies. It's been hijacked by overpaid consultants pushing a Wokeist ideology and berating non-believers. So we go from EDI/Woke at one end to MAGA white supremacists at the other.
Yep. It's the standard Woke get out clause now. Let us trash women's rights or you'll keep getting Trump and the rest. It's garbage. But they'll never see it. And they'll never back down from the damage they've done and continue to do. On women and for so-called progressive causes.
mad and wrong because it takes an axe to objectivity and truth and right and wrong and it platforms people with views that voters think are crazy. All this is true with or without Trump and the MAGA nutjobs.
until it was too late. That and then selecting Harris who was never going to beat him. A 12 month run up to the election and a better Dem candidate would have made a difference. But...Trump is pretty unique. It's extremely hard to run against someone who doesn't play by any rules. Wokeism is
Very true. I'm not really sure how much we can blame Wokeism for Trump anyway. I guess it's warped the Democrats' minds and led them further away from the avg voter. But, there are a no. of factors that got Trump re-elected and the biggest (I think) was Biden pig-headedly refusing to stand aside
The Greens are as dreadful as Reform. And if you're Jewish, they're the bigger threat. The ones I fear most aren't the far right or far left, however awful they are, but the respectable middle class 'anti-racists.' The supposed liberals/progressives, who are often anything but.
wasted hours (ok, probably more like mins...) tweeting about it over the years.
other clubs' never-ending moans about it. How it'd cost them dearly. From memory, Forest were very vocal...and yet voted against Wolves' proposal. Infuriating. Any pundit who backs it isn't worth listening to. Honestly, VAR must 'trigger me' more than any other (non political) issue. Must have
carried out. We've heard this before and they've never released a breakdown of their findings, methodology. It's shite. It'll be some self-selected crap they've gleaned from a few informal chats. I feel sorry for Wolves. We had the chance to bin it and yet no other club sided with them. Despite
just drive me mad with their insistence that it's here to stay but just has to be better (e.g. Henry Winter, brilliant commentator. Right about most stuff). It will never be better. Match going fans have always been the most vocal against. And don't start me on this supposed survey the Prem have
The single worst innovation in football in modern times. And I support a team where I'm not subjected to it. I have so many gripes about VAR and feel regularly smug that I said it would be dreadful from day 1. Some pundits have been consistently great in opposing (Oliver Kay, most notable), others
30 bloomin' years ago! Still my all time favourite British TV series. Kept me company during A-Level years.
PS. don't bother with the one off "+ 10" episode which came out. It was dreadful.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Really excellent.
Life on Mars pushes it close.
30 bloomin' years ago! Still my all time favourite British TV series. Kept me company during A-Level years.
PS. don't bother with the one off "+ 10" episode which came out. It was dreadful.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
There is no such thing. Especially when the idiot lawmakers want VAR for corners decisions. VAR will never ever be the answer.
Starmer/Reeves EU policy:
2024 - reset, but within the red lines
2025 - strategic partnership, but within the red lines
2026 - dynamic alignment, but within the red lines
And yet such slow progress, negligible economic dividend. I wonder why. What could the obstacle be?
Few people will ever ask for the charge to be removed. We're too polite/it's a bit awkward and it's taking advantage of customers.
