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Anand
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Absolutely this. From the "island of strangers" speech, to the twitter videos of deportations, to the confiscation of watches of refugees, to Starmer's claim that he sympathises with men who don't want "their daughters" to walk past places where migrants live - this is Labour's disaster.
Having a IRL social life is, I think, the biggest protection against the worst of online harms - and particularly the brain boiling misinformation. Just... engaging with the wider world
Which is why loneliness and a atomisation are two utterly key political issues that are entirely ignored.
Sam Wetherell
As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant.
I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
me and my lucrative vineyard will be fine
The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist thugs is particularly weird, given that they sign their work! The LVF spray tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, migrants or refugees. They've done this for decades!
This is a tangential and arguably spurious (football, men's) World Cup tie in I can appreciate.
I do think the simple fact of *having a job* can sometimes help counteract the worst of it though. Harder to drive yourself mad on social media quite so quickly if you have work to get on with.
can't help thinking of Downton Abbey as another side of this
normalising unequal aristocratic power in soft culture ways
I wonder if clod becomes an urban-rural insult at a time of increasing urbanisation in the 16th C
(a bit like the later jaywalker)
won't stop me weaponising some of these
incoherent rage?
Anand
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'institutional racism'
'two-tier policing'
note how easily a class, a tiny clique, tried to flip these meanings just one week ago — and will keep trying
