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Ok so it sucks that this happened and I'm sorry for your pain, truly. BUT Imagine how much the Antivaxxers would love this story A grown man gets vaccinated, starts skipping (something they would doubtless associate with homosexuality), and wakes up the following day concussed and in full body pain. You should sell it to them tbf, it could only be more perfect if you'd bought a Windows upgrade at the same time.

I think on top of that, there's a real lack of willingness among Brexit voters to accept that they just aren't as informed as other people. It's almost like they see it as a threat to their sense of self. You tend to hear a lot of these people disparaging university/higher education as a waste of time (and it really can be) but for the majority of people who go there, it's the diversity of opinion that you're surrounded by that really helps you to better inform yourself - and this isn't an opportunity that's easy to come by outside of learning institutions IMO. My Mum never went to uni and she frequently harps on about how she was educated in the 'school of life' and how people shouldn't look down on her for it - and honestly, no one does look down on her, it's all in her head - but the belief that they do makes her double down on the weirdest fucking issues, without any idea of what constitutes proper evidence or a reasoned argument. I've met quite a few people like this over the course of my life so I don't think it's just her - and it would be fine except that it's coupled with this belief that their opinion is somehow as valid as that of someone who is informed about an issue. And it just isn't. Not all opinions are created equal. She didn't vote for Brexit fwiw but probably only because of the concerns of all of her children. She does however believe that Boris Johnson is a capable man, that trans people are a threat to women in public bathrooms, and that people intentionally get sent to prison so that they can sit around all day playing video games.

She's lost 150,000 arrest records. Maybe it won't matter if we bring back the death penalty, doesn't appear that any department she runs would be competent enough to actually process anyone for it. I'd hate to be the individual responsible for that loss though - they'll probably be the first person to face the execution squads given how she comes across as a manager.

The Martinez effect. Takes over Everton who had been drilled fairly competently by Moyes, introduces some attacking verve, has a good season as the blend between the two styles takes hold but then loses it as the defensive discipline collapses. At least that's vaguely my memory of it.

Aye he was trying to see off the fringe right but instead gave them the entire party. He was fucking useless.

They were warned by the left though - or at least people they perceive to be 'the left'. And the left are evil socialists who want to bring about communism and forcibly re-gender everyone. Why would they listen to us?

Based on the clip of her versus Ian Hislop that's going around, it would appear that she does not.

The manner in which the politics played out was very coup like. They took a 48:52 vote split and took it to the most extreme position possible without having no deal. Coupled with Johnson's parliamentary shenanigans, I think we can call it a coup and still blame people for voting to enable it.

Johnson may be the most opportunistic, Gove may be the most repulsively vile, and Hancock may be the most pathetic, but Patel is honestly the most downright callous and mean.

And there's a public majority for it allegedly. If you take all 100% of people who voted for Brexit, I think I recall reading that the highest percentage of support from that group for any other policy, is for the death penalty to be brought back.

Wait, UKIP are still trying to be a thing? Independence from what, exactly? Rational thought is my best guess but I'd imagine they've got something else in mind.

I'm not convinced Don Jr has the same appeal as his father, I don't think we have to worry about a resurgence of the Trump legacy after this, they're being cast out of the Republican party in full. Ted Cruz maybe taking on the mantle, or Tucker Carlson if he decides to swing that way.

I assume it would also prevent Trump from getting classified intel after he leaves office. Which I think is a must, frankly.

I just noticed the overall total for the first time in a while - 100k deaths man, christ. How many would have been avoidable with better decision making? It's a tragedy.

All this just so that they could play at being kingmakers. Wankers. I wonder where we'd be if they'd not propped up May early doors.

That is hands down one of the worst interviews I've ever seen Hancock give. He should be sacked on the spot just for being so fucking useless.

Pathetic.

Well I hope they get maximum value out of it. And then proceed to bar him from ever running again, not that I expect he'll make it that far.

It looks like they won't get impeachment through against Trump because it requires a 2/3 majority which the Democrats don't have. I don't know why anyone even bothered entertaining it in light of that fact. However, apparently he could be barred from ever running for office again by the 14th Amendment which notes the formal disqualification of someone who has been involved in insurrection against the government. That's probably a nice middle of the road solution for a lot of this anyway, and makes sure that the cult of personality around him is at a total dead end.

Aye.

Cool, case closed then. Thanks ewerk

Once Twitter moved, Amazon had to? Once facebook did, Google had to? I'm not sure I'm going to be convinced of this, it looks pretty clear cut to me that it was co-ordinated.

Parler could have taken the same action though, it notionally agrees to the same principles as I understand it. The difference is that it had no opportunity to do so in the same way that twitter and facebook have had. I'm not really calling it a conspiracy either, at least in the sense that conspiracies denote something nefarious, whereas this is more an act of righteousness. I'm merely looking at 5 technological giants all deciding within 24 hours of each other to delete Trump supporters en masse, along with an outsider site that is less guilty than several of the 5 major players in getting us to the point we're at, and concluding that they probably all have lines of communication open between them in order to co-ordinate their actions to inflict maximum damage. As for 'why not do it in the Obama years' - this sort of implies that you think my view here is that big tech are working hand in hand with the democrats and politicians. I don't think that. The democrats have said next to nothing about Trump supporters and appear to be turning all their energies towards taking down Trump himself. Big tech are a law unto themselves IMO and they're on the front lines of the culture war. They've found a moment wherein they can do some serious damage to 'the other side' and they've taken it. Also, arguably the democrats and certainly big tech, are definitely not left wing. This is the revenge of the centreground. And it has my complete support because it demonstrates a will to actually do something about the out of control right wing after years of placating them. What I wouldn't give for something similar to happen over here.

But then why would Amazon, Google and Apple be involved in this. They're not overexposed here, certainly not ahead of Twitter and Facebook. I can see the argument but I think a significant part of this is shutting down as many Trump supporters as possible at least until Biden is sworn in, potentially to prevent them organising again. It's just too much, too fast, for it not to have been co-ordinated. I mean they've kicked the shit out of Parler from all sides, simultaneously. And it's not actually as big a problem for right wing radicalisation (in terms of sheer numbers) as facebook or twitter themselves. Why haven't they been kicked out of the app store? Because they're part of 'big tech' and 'big tech' appear to move as one on all things political. Anyway, yes, they should have done this ages ago - and frankly, both twitter and facebook should be getting the shit kicked out of them too. I hope they drown in committees.