Ginny [they/she]

I can excuse murder, but I draw the line at bad metre…

What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?

Temba, his arms wide!

My sibling in Christ, if there is one thing that did not contribute to Trump winning the election, it is not enough shaming by leftists. If anything there is too much.

Committed Trumpists can’t be shamed. They love it when the left try to shame them because that means they’re “triggered”. And as a result non-political “centrists” who “just want to grill” can’t be shamed because they’ve got people on the one hand telling them they should be ashamed and people on the other telling them they’re doing nothing wrong; in fact, they’re doing great! Who do you think they’ll side with?

Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending either of these groups of people. However shame is ultimately only effective when you can convince someone that what they’re doing is shameful, and to do that you have to bring them on side first. Yes, it sucks having to play nice and be patient with the “non-committed voter”, but ultimately the right has the left outmatched both in the ability use violence and the ability to appeal to people who don’t actually want to do anything.

Anyone who says “your body, my choice” is a lost cause though, feel free to punch those people all you want.

angry people that want to watch the world burn

believe he will return Christianity to the country

They’re the same picture.

People have known that water fluoridation is an international communist plot to sap and impurity our precious bodily fluids since at least the 50s!

The UK was not open and tolerant in the 70s, which is why there was one race riot after another on the 80s.

The UK has definitely gotten worse in the last few years or so, possibly a decade, but before that was a golden period just after terrorism-related Islamophobia had died down and before refugee-related Islamophobia kicked in where the UK was probably the best it ever was on terms of racial attitudes.

I don’t think the contrarianism is Lemmy specific. Whenever someone becomes problematic for whatever, there’ll always be people taking to twitter or whatever to say “well they were never really that good anyway”. And it is almost always just a cope, except in the specific case of Rob Schneider.

I was looking forward to Kaos but hadn’t gotten round to watching it yet. I guess I’ll just not bother…

Are you familiar with the comedian James Acaster? He has a relevant bit: https://youtu.be/Zt5qJC1xQ8A

I am no visionary but if Linux doesn’t internalize this, I’m afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix.

Maybe that’s not a bad thing? If you ask me the GNU people are missing a trick. Perhaps if they rewrote Hurd in Rust they could finally shed that “/Linux”.

It’s true. I was only ever eating bacon to keep the flying pig population in check, but now I don’t have to because the wind turbines will do the job.

Good for you. I was assaulted on a train from London to Manchester before I learnt how to drive.

Tell me you’ve never been assaulted by a drunk guy on a train without telling me you’ve never been assaulted by a drunk guy on a train.

TIL

All this time I assumed Uranus was just the Roman equivalent of Ouranos.

Earl

Squeal

Gwee

If you want to change a politician’s mind, you don’t do it by dangling your vote on a carrot.

So how do you do it?

I’m literally always saying this.

I call Britain a shitty little TERF island all the time, and I’m from Lancashire if that helps.

I have it on good authority that no man is island entire of itself, but every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main.