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May 24, 2020 15:26
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stev posted:It's all framing. It's the "would you rather save 60% or allow 40% to die" issue. Our brains are hard wired to reject anything portrayed in a negative or incomplete light. There are studies that show people will drive across a city to save 5$ on a twenty dollar purchase while simultaneously thinking they are getting ripped off if they 'only' get 5$ a 500$ purchase. People are just illogical as gently caress in general
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Perfect one in the replies https://twitter.com/drivelcast/status/1264563483414269953?s=20
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May 24, 2020 15:31
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Earlier https://twitter.com/samholdertv/status/1264529136741240834 Replies are a hoot. Gammons being outraged for them doing this to poor Dom. THERE IS A CHILD INSIDE HOW DARE YOU! ITS A SUNDAY NO ONE WANTS TO LISTEN TO THIS!
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May 24, 2020 15:38
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Necrothatcher posted:Same reason people get mad at people queue jumping. He's breaking the rules, this cannot stand. I want to speak to the manager etc.
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May 24, 2020 15:44
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Eararaldor posted:saved by the Karen? More likely the opposite, this will be the trigger that causes people to go 'well if he can break the rules, why can't I' even more than they already are. If they had some critical thinking faculties, maybe, but if that was the case we wouldn't be in this loving mess in the first place.
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May 24, 2020 15:45
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So the complete arsehole 2 doors down from me, who shouts at his two 4ish year old kids every day so loudly and aggressively that I can hear it indoors, and who has had his mother in law around every day throughout lockdown, is currently having a full on kids birthday party with probably a dozen people and children mingling in the garden. I hate that I care enough about the lives of strangers to feel anything about this, but it is people like this oval office who are going to cause a second wave.
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Necrothatcher posted:Same reason people get mad at people queue jumping. He's breaking the rules, this cannot stand. I want to speak to the manager etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-zxAo1ImIg
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Bardeh posted:So the complete arsehole 2 doors down from me, who shouts at his two 4ish year old kids every day so loudly and aggressively that I can hear it indoors, and who has had his mother in law around every day throughout lockdown, is currently having a full on kids birthday party with probably a dozen people and children mingling in the garden. I hate that I care enough about the lives of strangers to feel anything about this, but it is people like this oval office who are going to cause a second wave. Call the Plod?
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May 24, 2020 15:57
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thespaceinvader posted:How is it THIS that makes the comfortable middle class types rage? It's a lot easier to get at one person objectively doing something against the rules than it is a group of people acting in a way that causes more suffering and less fairness than could otherwise have been possible. One villain is a good target, even if society is the greater monster.
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May 24, 2020 15:58
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Z the IVth posted:Call the Plod? It's not a crime to care about your kid's birthday. Not sure what the police could possibly do.
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May 24, 2020 15:59
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Yeah, I'm not gonna call the police on a kids birthday party, and I don't even know if breaking lockdown rules is a criminal offence. I'm just kinda astounded by the ridiculous selfishness.
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May 24, 2020 16:05
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May 24, 2020 16:07
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If he was married to Dom this would be so much easier for him.
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May 24, 2020 16:08
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The telegraph had some vid of journos "questioning" Dominic and it was like a swarm of unmasked flies on poo poo, crowding around a maskless guy who is confirmed to have had it loving disgusting, the journalists aren't taking this remotely loving seriously either and it made them look extremely hypocritical even to a person who hates cumming The lockdown is gonna completely come to pieces as a casualty of this...
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May 24, 2020 16:08
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Gort posted:I wonder what the actual game being played here is. I don't believe for a second that the oligarchs who own the newspapers give a solitary poo poo about one of the oligarchs in the government breaking the rules. There is two reasons for this. Convenience and newspapers need money. Cummings has powerful allies, but not powerful friends. That means while people will go to bat for him, if push comes to shove people won't sacrifice their careers for him if there is compelling evidence. And this scandal has compelling evidence. The second reason is cold hard cash. Newspapers are bleeding money due to the lockdown. And this scandal is perfect newspaper fodder. Years ago I worked for a Tabloid. An editor in chief from the UK branch explained their business model around the World Cup. "Basically, every World Cup, it is my job to get the English football manager fired. Why? Because England Win the World Cup is a story. It's a good story and it sells Newspapers. But for one day. But England lose the World Cup? That's a better story. Because it sells Newspapers for days. First is England lost. Then it is Why did they lose. Then it is whose fault is it they lost. Etc... That's how you sell subscriptions." And that is the model they are following with Dominic here. They have well over a weeks worth of stories on this ready to go. And it will help sell subscriptions to their website since that's the economic model newspapers need to survive the pandemic. And in their target they've got the kind of guy who doesn't have powerful friends to fight back. Only some allies.
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May 24, 2020 16:09
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Bardeh posted:Yeah, I'm not gonna call the police on a kids birthday party, and I don't even know if breaking lockdown rules is a criminal offence. I'm just kinda astounded by the ridiculous selfishness. The people who are enforcing the lockdown rules can’t do anything about it if you don’t tell them. Might want to call social services about the shouting as well. Those poor kids.
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May 24, 2020 16:14
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The Question IRL posted:There is two reasons for this. Convenience and newspapers need money. Good god I hate the media industry.
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May 24, 2020 16:16
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Boris Johnson is now leading the 5pm press conference. This could be tasty.
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May 24, 2020 16:17
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thespaceinvader posted:Good god I hate the media industry. It reproduces itself in a lot more aspects of society unfortunately.
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May 24, 2020 16:18
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sassassin posted:It's not a crime to care about your kid's birthday. Not sure what the police could possibly do. inviting a load of people round to possibly infect your child is "caring about their birthday" now?
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May 24, 2020 16:19
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I know. So much of society is based on breaking stuff for profit and it saddens me. Especially as it's so loving short sighted.
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May 24, 2020 16:19
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willie_dee posted:The people who are enforcing the lockdown rules can’t do anything about it if you don’t tell them. Might want to call social services about the shouting as well. Those poor kids. Yeah, the NSPCC are encouraging anyone with concerns, even just suspicions or hunches or whatever, to give them a call.
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May 24, 2020 16:25
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Julio Cruz posted:inviting a load of people round to possibly infect your child is "caring about their birthday" now? you're missing the obvious [Dominic Cummings voice] there
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May 24, 2020 16:31
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Dell_Zincht posted:Boris Johnson is now leading the 5pm press conference. Calling it now; it's going to be a lot of bluster, projection and an insistence that dommy did no wrong but no sacking or resignation
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May 24, 2020 16:40
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I hope so, because that's going to make for a much funnier week.
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May 24, 2020 16:41
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My hope is that Boris does the conference, announces he has confidence in him, wraps it up and makes a swift exit. 5 minutes later we get a photo of Cummies gawping at some Durham bluebells in May.
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May 24, 2020 16:45
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So far the journos have played a blinder waiting to release the second part of the story until half the cabinet had bent over ready for the kicking. There has to be a third part right? Photo of him there or something? I can't imagine them taking the shot if they didn't have a really solid chaser ready to go for when DC immediately denied it.
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May 24, 2020 16:46
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Necrothatcher posted:My hope is that Boris does the conference, announces he has confidence in him, wraps it up and makes a swift exit. This is what I'm hoping will happen too.
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darkwasthenight posted:So far the journos have played a blinder waiting to release the second part of the story until half the cabinet had bent over ready for the kicking. There has to be a third part right? Photo of him there or something? I can't imagine them taking the shot if they didn't have a really solid chaser ready to go for when DC immediately denied it. In my experience, you wouldn't necessarily run this as a story. But you would run it as a series of stories. I'd say they have over a weeks worth of material.
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darkwasthenight posted:So far the journos have played a blinder waiting to release the second part of the story until half the cabinet had bent over ready for the kicking. There has to be a third part right? Photo of him there or something? I can't imagine them taking the shot if they didn't have a really solid chaser ready to go for when DC immediately denied it. Video of him bragging about going outside and coughing on old ladies AND orphans, followed by footage of him doing so.
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Dell_Zincht posted:This is what I'm hoping will happen too. alternative comedy option, Boris assumes they have more info and fires him, only to realise they didn't have anything else.
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May 24, 2020 16:56
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Most sufficiently old ladies are orphans.
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May 24, 2020 16:57
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He's been everywhere, that Dominic Cummings. Spotted him today skipping through a field in his little hat.
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May 24, 2020 16:59
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The Question IRL posted:In my experience, you wouldn't necessarily run this as a story. But you would run it as a series of stories. Could be total conspiracy thinking here, but both the accounts who tweeted about a third visit on May 10 have been conspicuously silent about further details since then - just football tweets and stuff like that. Mirror and Guardian both tagged in the comments on the date they originally tweeted but didn't publicly follow up. If I was a journo running the story and knew I was doing it a series I'd have advised them to keep schtum until it dropped. That sound anywhere close to possible or do I need to get my meds changed again?
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May 24, 2020 16:59
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He's gone. e: lol that intro didn't go where I thought, bit embarrassing
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May 24, 2020 17:04
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Necrothatcher posted:He's gone. Boris is spineless
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Necrothatcher posted:He's gone. I knew he was gonna drop the ball
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