Yeah, I've not quite found the right framing to write about this properly, yet, but I think a huge problem is media/politics becoming fully passive and reactive to what it sees as mass opinion rather than striving to argue with it.
A clear illustration (if one were still needed) of the real, functioning, and increasingly open anti-democratic alliance beween capitalist oligarchs, authoritarian powers, and right-wing populist ethnonationalism
getting some real mixed messages from the Midlands rn
“He says in a post on X”
Russia is openly waging a form of hybrid warfare against us and this is part of it.
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters'
milk itself is bad enough, i cannot imagine finding it more appealing with the word "raw" in front of it
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.