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Can't disagree with any of that. Yonks ago it was thought people took their real-world values into cyberspace - now I have to ask if it's the other way around with the social media echo chamber driving peoples' real-world values
Free speech liberal myself but think there's something very wrong which needs to be fixed somehow.
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Lots of debate in UK tonight about how to encourage nicer debate and people to be nicer to politicians. That is fine but it rather misses the key point.
The key issue now is to what to do about the Islamist scum in our midst and how to make it much, much harder for them to murder innocent citizens and make attacks on the UK's democratic and peaceful way of life.
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I dread the integration of VR with social media. People will equate simulated experiences with real past ones. In the wrong hands it will be terribly persuasive.
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@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
Can't disagree with any of that. Yonks ago it was thought people took their real-world values into cyberspace - now I have to ask if it's the other way around with the social media echo chamber driving peoples' real-world values
Free speech liberal myself but think there's something very wrong which needs to be fixed somehow.
'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.' - Oscar Wilde
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@antipodean said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
Can't disagree with any of that. Yonks ago it was thought people took their real-world values into cyberspace - now I have to ask if it's the other way around with the social media echo chamber driving peoples' real-world values
Free speech liberal myself but think there's something very wrong which needs to be fixed somehow.
'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.' - Oscar Wilde
More issues caused by covid!
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@antipodean said in British Politics:
'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.' - Oscar Wilde
One heck of a quote that.
I guess human interaction and social norms wisely stop us saying what our emotional side really thinks - which is missing on social media
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In light of Rishi's "tax and spend" budget:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/10/26/nhs-extra-billions/
I think if 40% gdp isn't enough, 100% won't be either...
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Tories putting themselves in a really tight spot with this Owen Patterson lobbying scandal. I think Laura K sums it up best here.
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Terrible timing and optics.
Paterson and his supporters seem to have a very good case - the process looks unfair and there appears to be bias in the system - but this is a crass way of dealing with it.
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@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
Terrible timing and optics.
Paterson and his supporters seem to have a very good case - the process looks unfair and there appears to be bias in the system - but this is a crass way of dealing with it.
U Turn Alert!!!
This government really is terrible at managing itself.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
Terrible timing and optics.
Paterson and his supporters seem to have a very good case - the process looks unfair and there appears to be bias in the system - but this is a crass way of dealing with it.
U Turn Alert!!!
This government really is terrible at managing itself.
Yep. What they have announced seems sensible and the sort of thing that should have happened in the first place.
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A bit of light relief...
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
Not sure Boris is going to get his way out if this one ….
You never know, he’s been the Teflon boy so far…
However, heads should roll on this one. We’ll see I guess.
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@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
Not sure Boris is going to get his way out if this one ….
You never know, he’s been the Teflon boy so far…
However, heads should roll on this one. We’ll see I guess.
The question is who would succeed him? It's too early to play the Rishi card I reckon. He's gotta be lined up as the poster boy going into the next election.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
@catogrande said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
Not sure Boris is going to get his way out if this one ….
You never know, he’s been the Teflon boy so far…
However, heads should roll on this one. We’ll see I guess.
The question is who would succeed him? It's too early to play the Rishi card I reckon. He's gotta be lined up as the poster boy going into the next election.
Boris is here for the duration of this government. My guess is he will watch the way the wind is blowing and jump ship if it looks anywhere near dodgy for him. If it’s not too close to call he may well stay on and it would be unlikely that there would be much opposition to this in the Tory party. Different scenario though if his popularity is waning in relation to whichever mongtard is running the Labour Party.
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Fuck the video clip is like something out of The Thick Of It
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