Must be somewhere, same nose
Pity she bred some deviants isn’t it
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Boris Johnson probably gave the best oration since Churchill in the commons today
Similar internet based propaganda techniques are used to foment different chaotic events. This has been observable for a considerable number of years now.
Comparisons of the techniques used to achieve them are very pertinent.
King Charles knocking it out of the park here.
Sinclair is an anti-vaxxer, sorry “vaccine hesitant” (have to be politically correct) so wouldn’t be the sharpest tool in the box.
But the lines are blurred here. All the usual brexity types will be his biggest critics and anyone you usually align with wont be fans of the queen or the monarchy.
Paper, scissors, rock, vaxx, race, gender
He’s just thick
Interesting how English club rugby goes ahead but English soccer is called off.
Back to front?
He is very fat for an older man.
The Brexity culture war types will go after Sinclair because he’s black and he’s given them an excuse to do so - even though a lot of them would agree with him being anti-vaccine. Others will just see what he wrote as somebody down a very dangerous pit of cynicism that never leads anywhere good.
As I see it probably the primary way anti-vaccine sentiment was spread among people of colour both in the US and in Britain (and I presume in non-English speaking European countries too) was to falsely frame it as a racist state lying to them, as in, “whitey lies to you about everything else, so they’re definitely lying to you about this”. In Britain anti-vaxxers could invoke how black men are stopped by police at higher rates or the scandal of what happened to the Windrush generation as examples of a racist state apparatus - all with the aim of seeding doubt about vaccines.
I think there’s a sort of similar dynamic at play among some Catholics in the North as regards all this. We’ve had two lads on here who would be prize examples of it.
Obviously there is a problem with structural racism in Britain, the US and in countries like France and elsewhere and that breeds cynicism. But cynicism is a very dangerous thing. Everybody needs some of it, but if you have too much of it it’s much more dangerous than having too little of it. Some people end up disbelieving everything official channels or any institutions like BBC or broadsheet newspapers report and believing everything opportunistic vultures peddling disinformation tell them. They imagine they’re rebelling against the system when in reality they’re just dispensing with their critical faculties. There’s keeping an open mind on some things and then there’s keeping such an open mind about everything that your brain falls out.
This then extends to things like being anti-Ukraine, anti-NATO and pro-Russia, merely because Russia is anti-west, so therefore it is somehow anti-imperialism despite launching a barbaric imperial war. It then extends to celebrating the death of the Queen as a conspicuous cultural signifier of being “anti-system”. It’s fine to be anti-the concept of monarchy, as I am (it’s not a topic that occupies my mind very much) but actively or aggressively celebrating the death of a woman who was basically a harmless figurehead is just plain weird and a demonstration of somebody having gone well off the deep end.
Russia has been very effective at stirring that sort of crushingly all pervasive “anti-system” sentiment among people who nominally who identify as “left” (but in reality are being lured into a far right web). And not enough people on the left push back against it, either because they are those people or because they’re cowed into fear by highly aggressive online lunatics who organise pile ons.
In the vault before The Ploughing starts, thank god
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Unlike Gerry Adams parents eh
Stock market booming after Lizzy’s death, the world is finally beginning to heal.
Much as the triumphalism of some might not be to everyone’s taste, it’s important to laugh at some of the outrageous public grief on display. Much of which simply has to be manufactured.
e.g. The reactions to this carefully worded tweet about energy prices from the UK’s Conor Pope are crazy. You can’t talk about energy prices in this time of mourning.
And this just defies any words really.
If there were celebratory scenes in Kenya after her death would you have the same opinion? Are they allowed any exuberance at the demise of their oppressor (or, at least, the figurehead of their oppressor)?
Yes, I would have the same opinion.
Martin McGuinness met the Queen and Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill were able to put out excellent statements.
Those people honking horns in Derry are basically the Dutch Gold Brigade of the Twitter IRA. They have no interest at all in building a progressive, shared society, only in preventing it happening, stuck down a terminal pit of cynicism, with an identity based on self loathing. The exact flip side of the KAT brigade. Fuck them.