[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

What happens when a Tory learns about empathy?

Cognitive dissonance.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Only way I can imagine Suella chasing a trans voter is with a cricket bat.

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This gave me a big belly laugh:

Another Conservative said: “The answer is we need to find a way to appeal to voters we lost to all parties. I don’t know how you do that on policy, but Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious. But I don’t know if any of the candidates we have at the moment can do that.”

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The butter won't make him fat but the pasta will.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's pure maths. The Tory votes plus the Reform votes is a bigger sum than the Labour vote. Listen. I have to live here with these fucks so I don't like it any more than you do. But without the collapse in the Tory vote it wouldn't have mattered what Keir Starmer or Ed Davey did.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's not what happened. The right wing vote got split by dummies wanting to vote for a party further to the right than their normal brand and the centre voted for the party that was still in the centre. I mean it was a good result in that the Normal Dummy Party got kicked out but if you look at the history they have been in control for most of the past two centuries because the electorate of this country are mainly right-leaning dummies.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Letter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray (22nd May 1860)

With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I shd wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

Source

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Old Sarum in Wiltshire (upload.wikimedia.org)
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The original settlement of Salisbury was known as Old Sarum. The population and cathedral city had moved in the 14th century to New Sarum, at the foot of the Old Sarum hill.

[-] [email protected] 126 points 2 months ago

Oh sweet summer child, your dad knows parts of the internet you have barely seen in your dreams.

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Turns out they're capitalists too...

[-] [email protected] 133 points 3 months ago

caught in an economic perfect storm

It's nobody's fault, just economic weather. Just bad luck. Nothing to do with corporate capture of the political process whatsoever.

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To them it's hilarious that all of our suffering was caused by someone else praying for it.

[-] [email protected] 193 points 4 months ago

This is just monetising incels, isn't it?

[-] [email protected] 466 points 7 months ago

Morning people, in my experience at least, firmly believe that night people are just morning people with insufficient self-discipline.

[-] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago

And in news that surprised absolutely no one...

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A former Conservative MP has asked to be removed from an award-winning academic's research presented in a TEDx Talk that connects her to a slave-owning ancestor

[-] [email protected] 105 points 11 months ago

I've seen the hexbears at work and don't doubt that they'd class some of my views as woefully liberal but in the main I am enjoying being on a site where the left is so unapologetic, doesn't go for all this centrist bollocks and is unafraid to call out bullshit.

Having seen the Overton window constantly shifted to a narrower aspect ratio and then shifted rightwards on reddit was a very disheartening experience and I think seeing active hexbears on all threads will be useful in stopping the uptight right when they inevitably decide that that the fediverse needs shifting towards their own Volkish views.

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