I think what will stop me going brain broken over YouTubers making tangible negative impacts on already horrible situations for selfish and ignorant reasons will be remembering that my finite disdain needs to be shared between Graham Linehan, Yaxley-Lennon, Joanne and co.
Ever since I bought a statue of Ichiban Kasuga from LAD it's been filling the role of an idol. Thinking about skipping the gym? holding on to anger? Ichiban knows I can do better, that's not what my frizzy haired himbo would do.
It's increasingly clear that our attempts to combat the rise of the far right, by putting Nigel Farage on I'm a Celebrity and a thousand episodes of BBC Question Time, have failed. We must now consider getting him on Strictly and allowing him to present BBC News directly
we didn't see each other again until about 2 years ago in a pub. only took a few seconds for him to start the phrase book. "these days... im not racist but". He'd fallen down that hole and to pull him out would mean isolating him what community he had left. so it goes sometimes.
I had this mate from year 7 through 10 who had a real rough go of it. While we were friends he'd say dumb things he'd picked up from neighbours and his mum. Almost all of it could be unpicked by asking "if thats true why do you hangout with us?" he realised it didn't track.
What really upsets me about the far right bullshit in England is I have worked with students who are far nicer than the lines they'd parrot (/let slip) from home, it just takes exposure to the other looking bogeymen for them to challenge that programming themselves.
Instagram reels at this point works pretty well as a down bad detector, and drinking bet. whoever's algo shows thirst content first, buys the next round and has to do some introspection.