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https://twitter.com/MinnieStephC4/status/1488473974245892097?t=QLr5pgvjgAHnQtA1lpt_Cw&s=19 Absolutely disgusting and completely unsurprising. Content note for racism, misogyny, homophobia, domestic violence in the report. How the gently caress do you reform that? EvilMoJoJoJo fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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Apropos Gove, I recently heard from a reliable source that the Westminster gossip is that our 'favourite' Pob lookalike has been pretty quiet recently because his boyfriend has just moved in with him. Given the overwhelming "will this do" aura to the levelling up white paper, I can believe it.
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Re Jimmy Carr, I saw him do a set at a corporate awards show about a decade ago. It was, not exaggerating, the most unfunny "comedy" gig I've ever seen, and for a few months afterwards every work conversation I had started with "god, can you believe that [industry body] booked Jimmy Carr, it was absolutely awful". Even in a room of (mostly) middle aged white blokes at mid/senior manager level, his routine went down like the proverbial cup of cold sick. The main "joke" I remember from it was a bit about him "persuading" his girlfriend to have anal sex. It was completely disgusting and misogynistic, and so so very unsuited to the milieu. Weirdly, I saw right-on leftie Marcus Brigstocke at the same event the next year, and he was actually well-received. Everyone said what a relief it was after the Carr crash the previous year.
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The Carr apologia from his media mates reminds me of nothing so much as when the friends of someone accused of abuse spring to their defence with "oh but they were always so lovely to me!" like yes of course they were??? Because you were part of their bulwark against being held to account for the harms they caused? I don't know Carr's motivations and don't care to. All I can do (as a good existentialist) is judge him by his actions and words. He has a long track record of "joking" about rape, disabled people, and minorities (and other marginalised groups) in ways which damage those groups' abilities to live peacefully, so yeah I'm going to say pretty confidently that I think he's a oval office, no matter how ""lovely"" he is to his peers. e: I've always liked the number 22, it is the departmental number of Côtes d'Armor in Brittany where I've spent quite a lot of time.
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Ah, even Sky News forgetting the rule on how to spell that surname - it's "-vile" as in that's what he was. A rule popular with tabloid hacks back in the day even before his crimes were well-known outside media/police circles, apparently. Isn't it lovely how they all knew, and said nothing?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've said this before about the nature of coverups and "Everyone knew", but you don't need a vast conspiracy of hundreds of people for these sort of crimes to go undetected, the weight of society does most of the work for you. "Everyone knew" about Savile but then also "everyone knew" about Marc Almond, or Elton John, or Michael Douglas (not the goon) - rumours about celebrities sexual proclivities are as old as celebrity itself. Multiple victims did complain to the police, and all their cases were buried. We all know that the police exchanged information with the tabloids so it's utterly unsurprising that the very serious allegations were indeed common knowledge in a certain milieu. If anything it's an indictment of how victims were and are treated in far too many cases by police when they try and report, even in cases where their attacker isn't a friend of literal royalty and the then-prime minister. Believe me, I am very well aware of how rape culture operates, and how victims are systematically silenced. I don't think anything in my comment indicated otherwise. It's not engaging in conspiratorial thinking to point out that Savile's crimes were well-known enough for the "vile" epithet to be used as a grim aide-memoire by journalists writing about him, who certainly knew he was a wrong 'un.
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kingturnip posted:It isn't off-topic when the Tories use it as a dead This is actually what my (Tory minister) MP said to me in a reply to my email about Partygate. Blah blah leave the police to do their job blah blah we now need to focus on the geopolitical situation. Utterly useless but I expected nothing more!
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