Neel

[Sneeze @DoktorRichter]

Steel is heavier than water 🤣 what are these goofy fuckers DOING???

[Faraz Pervaiz @FarazPervaiz3]

Islam is basically a religion that was invented as an excuse for grown men to have sex with little girls and farm animals.

[Ruben Callewaert @RubenCallewaert]

The Jaffa won their freedom because they stood together.

Tonight, this fandom is doing the same... With heart, honor, and a turnout that would make Teal’c and Bra’tac proud.

Indeed.

#SaveStargate

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP IF YOU TRIED ......A Blackburn councillor who was fined for fly tipping a whole van load of his household rubbish at Witton Park in 2021 , has just been handed the enviromental porfolio, hes now responsible for fly tipping !! Hussain Akhtar got a £400 fine for doing his own dumping and now is in charge of enviromenatl matters !! Oh if you didnt laugh you would cry , this country is insane

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

The BBC are reporting that Asylum seekers commit crimes at higher rates than British people do

They even named Pakistan, Eritrea, Iran, Afghanistan & Bangladesh as worst offenders

What reality am I living in?

[Caroline Farrow @CF_Farrow]

Amazing how much liquidity they have. 🤔

Most of us couldn't just up sticks in 48 hours.

[Neel @neelfx]

Love Seinfeld.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Merge SpaceX and Tesla and make @Gwynne_Shotwell CEO of the new entity and let @elonmusk go ultra deep into psycho engineering.

[Auguste Prompt @augusteprompt]

I’m starting to trust Dario less than Sam. At least with Sam it’s comically transparent how Machiavellian he is, you can practically see the scales.

Dario however has the EA disease and believes he’s our lord and saviour, something that is far more dangerous.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@RobertJenrick Why did you fast-track a visa for that barbarian?

[British Unapologetically 🇬🇧 @patriotismbrit]

Serious question.

How many people here believe Rupert Lowe would make a better Prime Minister than anyone currently in Westminster?

[Neel @neelfx]

@WindyBeaver Even the full form ‘brother’ seems off.

[Windy Beaver @WindyBeaver]

I dislike hearing British people calling one another ‘bro’. It doesn’t suit us, pack it in

[Madeleine @JournoMaddie]

Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, famously commented on a London newspaper stand as a sign of the highly-civilised society of Great Britain in the 1940s.

His words came to mind when I saw the state of this newspaper stand in a London tube station this afternoon.

It’s remarkable how far we’ve fallen in such a short amount of time.

His words:

“Perhaps the most impressive sight I came upon was when I emerged from the tube station at Piccadilly Circus. I found a little table with a pile of newspapers and a box of coins and notes with nobody in attendance. You take your newspaper, toss in your coin or put in your 10-shilling note and take your change. I took a deep breath - this was a truly civilised people.”

[Neel @neelfx]

Can we add Ian dale from @lbc to the dodgy leftist women pulling weird faces list along with @cathynewman and the others? @bbcquestiontime

[FAN MADE DAVE @fanmadedave]

@Danjsalt Wasn't he on Question Time?

[Dan Salt @Danjsalt]

Perfect interaction as it is clear that Dale doesn't get what's happening in the country now

[Emma Trimble @Emma_A_Webb]

This man reminds us of that this is not the first beheading in Ireland. In 2023 two men were murdered, one beheaded, in Sligo. Yousef Palani targeted his victims “due to prejudice against homosexuality.”

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The message of a protest is "we don't like this".

The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it".

People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world.

They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are.

If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence.

And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table.

Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that.

Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power.

(Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.)

When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can.

And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc.

This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight".

They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict.

This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table.

A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care.

A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.

[Sherpa @LLMSherpa]

Folks won't shut up about Fable 5, but Gemini is out here SAVING LIVES.

[John Ennis @johnennis]

The Anthropic meeting with the Department of War going badly makes more sense now