“It’s the billionaires”
“It’s the alt-right echo chambers”
“It’s the manosphere influencers”
“It’s the…”
Actually it’s the videos of Africans beheading people in the street that are making people more right-wing
Is that how it works now? If someone calls up the police & says you're being racist then they'll come & arrest you even if you're doing absolutely nothing other than lying down, without even waiting to hear your side of the story?
Part 7 of the 'Britain is a nation of immigrants'.
Spotted, in Ludlow, headmasters of the local school going back 700 years, and not a Brzeziński, Hussain or Gombrich in sight.
Many have noted that Labour are cutting VAT on theme parks while imposing VAT on independent school fees.
Here is the fundamental reason why Labour's position is unjustifiable, to put it mildly. 🧵
Allahu Akbar, one and all. It’s been a big night for Green and independent candidates standing in the Gaza – sorry, British – local elections.
While Reform has much to celebrate in gaining ground across the country, so too, it seems, do the people of Palestine, who now find themselves represented in town hall decision-making about bin collections and potholes nationwide. As if they hadn’t suffered enough, eh?
Successful pro-Palestine candidates have wasted no time taking to social media to express their pride at winning swathes of British voters.
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Birmingham by far and away the most interesting city in Britain - the real capital, not London. Its relative decline a much better mirror to the rest of the country than Manchester or Bristol or Edinburgh. The actually existing UK, good and bad and the rest on display almost everywhere you go. Richest place to report on and to have conversations with people. Also has the best botanical gardens (maybe not relevant to the point I’m trying to make). The fact that no one has written a gigantic teeming Tom Wolfe / Dickens style brick called Second City shames British writers, journalists, novelists, publishers.
Some of us have played the game and some of us haven’t, imagine being a Bath fan seeing the lack of replays and for blatant yellow cards. My job is to say what I see, your job is to sit in your Mum’s basement and watch
finally got to see the video and there's a lot of interesting things going on here.
first, there's an element here of the "my culture has a beautiful unique tradition of gathering for a large meal!" type discourse where people from lesser cultures grasp onto mundanity as if they were the only ones who ever did it, always silly.
>"in my culture, we like to make loud noises when we are particularly excited!"
oh, you mean like "hip hip hooray?"
>"no, in my culture it's very different, you couldn't possibly understand.
but this is just "hip hip hooray" only at an inappropriate time.
second, you can even see this during the video in Sabrina's confused reaction "your culture is yodeling?"
bc, yes, obviously, yodeling is a part of Swiss culture. but Swiss culture has a lot going on so they don't go around yodeling at inappropriate times and then angrily inform people that it's just fine bc "that's just Swiss culture".
so in this one brief interaction we see the truth laid bare:
1) loud noises to emote excitement is not some unique part of just your culture, that's a human universal.
2) that said, how it is expressed obviously varies. in Sabrina's culture, it shouldn't be expressed during a concert as she's trying to bring the mood down to instill a particular emotional vibe.
3) but somehow, everything today is lowest common denominator. the 'culture' that is the ugliest, most anti-social in western civilization gets to win, every time, bc "diversity is strength" or something. it's dis-civilizational. this is a relatively modest example of the broader phenomenon driving everything to shit.