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there’s a brexit / tiktok / george galloway / yoga / photoshopped-princess intersection here that will somehow end up being powerful in utterly baffling ways

right now there are millions of middle-class young english women — women who might not normally ever read the news beyond a glance — that are currently rapidly developing what is likely to be a strong and life-long profound mistrust of any normie media outlets. that’s the kind of thing that has...

have to imagine that whatever lowly apparatchik actually wrote the article was probably cast into a dungeon after this got published — really profound ignorance on proud display

alternatively we could regard it as a victory of sorts that the march is widely viewed as legitimate, popular, democratic, broad-based, etc... meanwhile, opposition to the march is so thin and brittle that it almost immediately devolves into intra-elite bickering and jockeying among senior...

suit + rucksack = prick don’t fight it, the masses have spoken

let’s all just get used to the idea that, from today, we are re-branding the northern ireland protocol as the “windsor framework,” and if that makes jacob rees-mogg and jeffrey donaldson and the assorted other clowns feel good about themselves, then perhaps this whole exhausting episode can...

car26?! *spit* free-staters car32 or nothing!

I can well imagine that boris is making a few speculative phone calls this evening

as they hurtle headlong into further upcoming collisions with reality over the upcoming Trussian winter

three weeks in and Truss has already killed the queen and destroyed the currency — she moves fast, gotta hand that to her

we just need the Chinese or the Russians or whoever to figure out a way to put charles in a coma, but not kill him, and then the UK will be stuck with andrew in charge, followed by intermediate unclear part, followed by English republic with David Attenborough as elected head of state

I really hope they stick with their queer tradition of gendering the country in juxtaposition to the reigning monarch and switch their name to the united queendom now

yeah I can only imagine that the lads in the kremlin are probably mildly happy with the outcome. idiot new UK PM, multiple crises in britain, lots of pointless culture-warring to come but no fundamental addressing of real problems — probably suits them fine

that crazy country just never stops with the ideological hammer-blows required to ensure the security of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie... it’s really quite remarkable to watch how efficient it is

both systems have a strong culture against personal ambition, enforced by many mechanisms. in the church, there’s a concept called “papabile” — literally, whether or not someone is regarded as “popeable” — which is partly used as a term of respect and acknowledgement, but also, paradoxically...

it’s notable that both the catholic church and the chinese communist party have elaborate systems in place explicitly to *prevent* the advancement of ambitious careerist strivers, in order to avoid exactly these kinds of situations

there’s a certain kind of ambitious student-politics eager striver that just spends their whole lives as a kind of political performance. I remember being profoundly repelled by them when I was in university. most of them age out of it eventually, but a few really commit (some of the ones I knew...

(makes me idly wonder if there’s a sensible centrist niche on teen tiktok... probably is, it seems somehow inevitable)

probably a load of youtubers and tiktokers that we’ve never heard of