julietOscarEcho

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[–] julietOscarEcho 2 points 6 months ago

Black lives matter is the least hyperbolic statement of that movement imaginable. That there was pushback even on that framing speaks more to the vile ess of its opponents than to a failure of marketing.

You might want to put it on your list but it's the opposite problem to your other examples if anything.

[–] julietOscarEcho 4 points 6 months ago

America's 1%! Lol, just a couple of orders of magnitude off there. It's pretty unhelpful to lump billionaires in with the mass affluent, it's a totally different level of excess.

[–] julietOscarEcho 1 points 7 months ago
[–] julietOscarEcho 1 points 7 months ago

He's using those words to defend not giving benefits to the parents of a third child though. It's just double speak: "it's not about handouts is about a social safety net". By playing into the framing of social safety nets as handouts he just defends the status quo. Definitely no evidence he really gets it.

[–] julietOscarEcho 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Inspiring. Inquisitors and rogue traders are the best bits of the setting.

[–] julietOscarEcho 3 points 7 months ago

Why reference a fable at all if you're going to totally ignore it's message?

The tories have been the same arrogant, entitled breed the whole time. Labour have still lost to them repeatedly so it seems weird to chalk it up to luck this time.

[–] julietOscarEcho 2 points 7 months ago

Interesting point from lanterne rouge about how lidl trek might like this result actually: they were left to it and couldn't pull back the break so they'll be more legitimately able to ask for help on future sprint stages. Actually probably a better outcome for them than losing a sprint, though obviously not as good as winning. Is Milan really better than Merlier though? I'm not sure.

[–] julietOscarEcho 1 points 7 months ago

Best I've seen so far is the independent and, while they add some sensible context, even they are quoting sunak as if he's speaking in good faith.

[–] julietOscarEcho 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It pisses me off that this getting coverage when it contains no actual new information and is so obviously a conservative communications strategy.

Rishi is not accepting the rejection of his ideas at all. He's conjuring the spectre of hung parliament as a rallying cry to disaffected tory voters. Maria Caulfield quote about the differences between local and govt elections really hammers this home and every media outfit is blithely repeating it all like they're tory sock puppets.

[–] julietOscarEcho 3 points 7 months ago

In context, "overtones" is a pretty decent autocorrect for Overton here.

[–] julietOscarEcho 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah way too literal to be emtertaining. I guess if your reaction to the mayoral campaign is disaffected "both sides" BS (though no well informed person holds that view) then it would work shrugs. I'm sure as shit not reading the article because if their headline writing is that lazy I doubt there's anything of value beyond it.

[–] julietOscarEcho 2 points 7 months ago

Started training properly this week after injury supposedly. Fair chance he does the TDF, unlikely he'll be his full self rest of season but maybe he'll be competitive in the Olympics?

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