@MatthewTheStoat Can confirm - plenty of ideas, angles, and references kept me going, tho. In a way appropriate to the dark insanity of the history it describes - he is a sort of JG Ballard novel shaman character. But the stylistic oddness/difficulty might confine it to the kooksphere.
The British government getting paranoid about 'foreign bots' while foreign agents waltz straight through our open borders to be picked up by a luxury coach.
@RealDianeYap So some forms of discrimination (IQ) are ok by you, but others aren’t (race)? This seems a rather idiotic basis to get all moralistic on.
@AlrxCox TFW you want to use the word “mogged” to be seen as amusing + betray your people and falsify history in the process. The Normans and the Huguenots were not flown in on planes, put up in hotels, and given benefits and vouchers to help begin setting up doubtful business ventures.
@hector_drummond “I shall never forget the aching poignancy I felt as Peter Hitchens was towed to the breakers yard that chill, autumnal morning—those sleek, well-crafted lines of his cruelly exposed as a hollow shell, a greatness we had dreamed perhaps was not a chimera, lost that English morn.”
@ClarkeMicah According to Mr Hitchens this is part of a great civilizing “challenge… [we] have to seek.” The man has entirely taken leave of his senses on this.
@malinformedtv Yes - culture-distortion related: I was reported for racism by an (((American))) employee of the RC for expressing annoyance with one ‘fugee who was an attention-seeker. Heaven forfend any rules should be abided by. Had to defend myself in a mild struggle session.
@malinformedtv Yeah, looking back I should probably have tried harder but I wanted out of that depressing horrorshow and thought there was a more “normal” world to move on to. 😂
@malinformedtv I tried to whistleblow but my lefty manager blocked it, saying it would be “hard to prove.” Thus proving that he didn’t really give a fuck about supposed lefty priors like protecting women from patriarchal predators. Round and round we go… ;)
@malinformedtv Yep - some male former migrant employees would provide hard-to-get London flats in exchange for mistress status for younger women. Some of the Brit immigration officials were somewhat in on this, at least on the level of “partying” now and again - galloping corruption.
"Crimestop" is a term from Orwell's 1984 which, unlike doublethink, has not found its way into common usage. It perfectly describes the academics I used to work with: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."
@RadicalLib “The same is true in the crappy Butlins-cum-1970s-Doctor-Who-budget version of all this starring Farage. The pantomime of him resigning to ‘clear his name’ only to face the humiliation of taking on the comedy act Count Binface is another storyline straight out of WWE RAW.” 😂