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This has absolutely nothing to do with politics https://twitter.com/JaneFallon/status/1520410789072494592 edit: accidental animal tax.
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Thanks for all the book recs, my Kindle is now bulging (mostly with samples, I'm not made of airports). Started with the one Guav recommended (as a fellow knower of the Horny Rabbit book, I trust your taste) - nice change from accurate, in-depth analysis of why everything is broken 
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Enjoy I think the second book far more than the first has a twist ending which is very much in line with 'things this thread would appreciate' but I won't spoil anything.
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loving hell the papers really are all dogshit aren't they? Parents are down for the weekend, and after a brief discussion of the problems with them reading the Mail (and pointing out the insidious transphobia in the article mam showed us) they've asked for an alternative and I'll be honest, I'm absolutely stumped. The Mirror possibly, but all of the articles are clickbaity trash and still have a vaguely angry, tabloid feel. The i & independant require subs up front. Guardian is transphobic lib trash (first article I tried literally blamed the tories winning on Corbyn) and has already been ruled out for being 'too high brow anyway.' Wish there was a channel 4 news app or something relatively neutral. Even the BBC News app is dogshit though at least it would be a step sideways from the Mail. Got to come up with something to recommend or they'll slip back to using the Mail. Bear in mind they are older and will not want RSS or anything complex - neither of them are particularly tech savvy.
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I went hunting for left wing publications and stumbled upon the news line. Holy poo poo, that's a... Thing.  https://wrp.org.uk/editorials/workers-must-stop-the-imperialist-war-drive-with-socialist-revolutions/ Is this what people mean by the whole, going so far left you wrap around and start repeating Russian talking points?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:loving hell the papers really are all dogshit aren't they? If you get the All 4 app you can get C4 News on it. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/channel-4-news You can read a fair bit of the Independent for free, just the premium articles you can't. At least you've raised awareness with them so maybe a couple of decent blogs to add to their reading matter. If they have topics of particular interest, maybe suggest that they read a few different sources? Sky News is less poo poo than some - maybe that app to add to their repertoire? Maybe you could check out this one for a couple of weeks and see how it is? https://leftfootforward.org/ I know nothing about it.* Oh and this one whose name I keep forgetting! https://thewordmedia.org/ (ditto I haven't read it for a couple of years so no idea what its stance is on various issues other than generally 'socialist').* It was also a paper paper but they had continual problems with distribution (as in WH Smiths I think refusing to stock it or something like that, so I don't know it if it still available in paper form). Newsline: haven't seen that for literally DECADES! I didn't know it was still going! *Ed: I looked up transphobia in both leftfootforward and the word. Couldn't see anything in The Word, but LFF seems to be pro-trans rights (NB I haven't read any of this in depth so stand to be corrected!) https://leftfootforward.org/search/transphobia Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:37 on May 1, 2022 |
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It's not the exact flavour of brain worms I've seen but sure. The usual mental pipeline is "America bad" -> "America supporting Ukraine" -> "Ukraine must be bad" -> "Russia must be good"
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Imperialism is bad, but this guy who's full of Holy Rus brainworms and talking about rebuilding the Russian Empire, he's probably alright.
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I misread that as “milked up” and it still sounded completely plausible
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Bobby Deluxe posted:loving hell the papers really are all dogshit aren't they? I'd go with Mirror or BBC personally, given what you wrote. There's also Reuters and such but it's probably too high-brow as well and kindof boring besides.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:loving hell the papers really are all dogshit aren't they? FT?
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FT is honest, but its priorities are (understandably) economic and financial not political. The good of this is that it doesn’t report on all the trivial distracting poo poo that makes up a lot of the media discourse in the UK, the bad is that it isn’t particularly interested in social journalism because that doesn’t move markets. Also the perspective is quite firmly international not really UK, so it tends to have quite a strong London bias. (It’s my go to paper, but then usually I’m not in the UK).
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FT is also £55 per month subscription, which is probably chicken feed if you are some North London Liberal, but well out of the range for the ordinary working man.
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The independent website is the only site with paywalled articles that makes me think "drat I wanted to read that"
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The hard answer is that you genuinely can't trust any single media platform and need to simply develop media literacy, and healthy skepticism towards mainstream narratives without doing full conspiracy theorist. (which is just uncritically consuming a different bunch of media) Somewhat related, a big problem with a lot of legacy leftist media is how a lot of it is motivated by contrarianism and taking fringe positions for the sake of it rather than actual belief or consistent ideology. See a lot of 'post-left' types who if they ever actually were leftist usually only did so because it was edgy and weird, and pivoted to something else (usually fascism) when people started being leftist unironically.
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ed: Double post, how the gently caress did that happen?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:ed: Double post, how the gently caress did that happen? Lack of actual belief or consistent ideology, probably. 
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If you're forty years old its a waste of time trying to convince your parents to change their ways. Also who keeps orange squash in the fridge?
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It's not orange squash, it's M&S orange squash ™
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I saw some prawn cocktail wotsits today. 
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Jippa posted:I saw some prawn cocktail wotsits today. leicestermercury posted:Yasmin Morgan set up the Change.org petition back in 2017, calling on the Leicester firm to reinstate her beloved prawn cocktail flavoured Wotsits which hadn’t been seen on shelves since 2002. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/walkers-gives-wotsits-campaigner-first-6756948
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Tories came o knocking. Politely explained I could never vote for a party with Johnson as leader or a policy like Rwanda. No point in admitting I'd never vote for them regardless, less likely to take the feedback on board. Labour I'd probably have had more a go at but they came when I was in the middle of pooping. Lib dems haven't shown up yet.
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Mega Comrade posted:Labour I'd probably have had more a go at but they came when I was in the middle of pooping. So are they
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Tractor Tracther Track Her ??? Big Tit Spunkfest 3
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my geography teacher in secondary school had the projector screen on and we all saw him manage to find inadvertent porn by googling 'Savannah'
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TACD posted:I misread that as “milked up” and it still sounded completely plausible i did the very same 
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There's not a great difference between "gently caress me, John dear" and "gently caress me, John Deere", to be fair.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-party-celebrates-blair-with-launch-of-1997-merchandise_uk_626e6e49e4b050c90f415901quote:A New Dawn? Labour Party Celebrates Tony Blair With Launch Of 1997 Merchandise  Slightly amended lyrics from Party Like it's.. quote:The sky was all purple I think I am now done with the Labour Party even holding my nose.
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It's weird how they're all trying to make Blair acceptable when every time you see him now he's doing some morally reprehensible poo poo. Latest was doing crypto scams with that nonce Clinton.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/walkers-gives-wotsits-campaigner-first-6756948 After being tempted I can say that I am not a fan.
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2022: New New Labour is back, baby! 2023: Tough on humanity, tough on the causes of humanity 2024: NeoBlair wins election 2025: Single mothers banned, fit-to-work tests replaced with an experimental gravity drive engine that opens a portal to hell 2026: Hooded jackets banned, sharp forks banned, talking foreign on the bus added to the mental health act 2027: Direct intervention in Russia 2028: Nuclear war 2029: Ed Davey rules the wasteland
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crispix posted:burn down the labour party and salt the ashes imo It's the only way to keep Johnson in power.
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https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/1520561444730847234?s=19 I'm sure everyone very concerned with racism will be writing their resignation letters to the Times.
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Morningwoodpecker posted:It's the only way to keep Johnson in power. Labour will keep Boris' policies so what does it matter? https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1520685368496078848?s=21&t=q-j_zKFndA4-WTU5oa8xWQ
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Jedit posted:There's not a great difference between "gently caress me, John dear" and "gently caress me, John Deere", to be fair. Massive Ferguson
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