Time of Doubt - Hotvox

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I'm really struggling to understand why people are up in arms about phones being banned in schools. I know so many people who work in places where phones are banned.

Why do centrist dads and sensible moderates care so much about the Mandelson bullshit? Non-stop posting about what Starmer knew when. It's such a boring scandal.

It's the cost of the ticket and the bullshit prices for refreshments that does it.

Perhaps. They have also (mis?)calculated that the right poses less of a material or existential threat to them. Life under Farage/Trump will mainly represent a minor inconvenience, perhaps some loss of wealth. BAU but with more visible oppression, but within tolerable limits for them.

"Sensible moderates" are just "Shy fascists". They illustrate that every time they react to the far right with mild scolding words, but go all out scorched earth on anyone left of New Labour. The visceral contempt they had for Corbyn vs the mild disdain for Farage.

Time of Doubt - Hotvox

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Getting platformed makes you crazier, which in turn means your brand of crazy gets spread and normalised, making other people crazier. Or something.

People were not this crazy before the Internet.

Hang on. Isn't the air much thinner up and that's why you can't breathe?

But the air in front of your face isn't blue? It's only blue in the sky.

The problem is, the parents of lots of children known to social services are terrified of their kids, so that's not so unusual and therefore not a strong warning. Key questions for the parents include where on earth was he getting the money to buy these weapons? They are culpable.

While economists might measure the wealth of an individual, the people themselves might well be looking at how their local authority is broke, or how the GP rations things they used to get on Rx. Services are cash-strapped, and by extension, so are we. (even if we aren't in reality).

The infrastructure - roads, schools, public libraries, public toilets, youth centres, parks - is in decline. People might have money in their pockets, but they look around and see deprivation and degradation. If every time you go Lidl there's someone begging for food, you're gonna feel miserable.

Also, I don't understand why the US is now blockading the Strait of Hormuz.

I dont understand this Polymarkets thing at all. It's a "wisdom of crowds" thing but with gambling? But how does that work with whether the US will invade Iran by April. What does the average person know?

Infuriating!

*his existence has been erased from history.

He's been erased from existence.

Yet, the loud, sustained global condemnation from world leaders is not forthcoming.

Maybe Israel's kompromat is about Melania, not Trump. Maybe genocide is too high a price to keep that under wraps. She's been thrown to the wolves.

Two observations on the statement by Melania Trump, which are in tension with each other.

1. It is hard to see what professional advice led to her making it.

2. The statement was well drafted but she seemed unfamiliar with it, which indicates it was drafted at least in part by someone else.

Odd.

Why isn't there a global outcry against what Israel is doing in Lebanon? How is it people have mouth to speak when Trump merely threatens war crimes, but say practically fuck all when Israel actually commits them? They bombed the last bridge connecting S. Lebanon to the rest of the country.

I guess a country founded on genocide after genocide is not going to be bothered by one more.

😅 I wonder where the critique is supposed to take place.

Actually, no, they do send MPs away if they get convicted for sexual assault. You can't come back from that. In fact, yeah, the US is in a category of its own when it comes to convicted criminals holding office.

I think it's the same here. The only time I can think of people going to prison was the "expenses scandal" when the press decided that MPs were claiming too many expenses.

Hegseth, like Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and all those other fuckers, will get away with it. He knows he will. This makes my blood boil.

The adage about "Naming Things" has just cost me an hour of my life. Also, fuck Stata for accepting shortened varnames everywhere except in the shitty fucking collect command.

Impossible to tell if this is an April Fool's Day joke.