:british-maw: Personally, I found it fun to huddle around a family candle
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/12/hellish-blackouts-could-yet-have-silver-lining/
No country on Earth hates it’s children more than TERF island. They tear up parks and replace them with concrete to deprive them (and everyone) of places to go for free, they put up little high-pitched noise devices everywhere that are meant to be uncomfortable to them to discourage “loitering”, and they have programs like PREVENT that use 21st century War on Terror rationales to funnel children into the prison pipeline even more efficiently (and on even flimsier pretenses) than ever before!. Now these solipsistic Saturnian fucks, who at every point in their lives have felt entitled to treats, an empire, neverending cultural hegemony for their generation and class, sex tourism in oppressed nations, control of other people’s bodies, and unconditional love and respect from their abused children, are starting to grind up against the cold walls of the reality they helped create, and their stunted psyches cannot handle it, reaching out as always for someone else to blame.
#Notallbrits obviously, but the society; there is something deeply vicious, incestuous, and cannibalistic about that wretched isle.
People will (rightfully) shit on the Tories a lot, but the horrifying thing is that a lot of this stuff - as well as ASBOs and the shutting down of almost all youth clubs - happened under New Labour, and following Blair’s tragedy we’ll soon be living under Starmer’s farce.
If only Labour could have stopped itself from punching down on the working class, they could have won in 2019 and Corbyn would have been PM. But no, they just couldn’t. At this point they need to rebrand and drop the Labour name because that’s definitely not the part of society they want to represent.
I’ve spent most of the last few years mostly convinced that the United States is the worst society on earth, but the last few months have started to convince me that maybe, just maybe, it’s only second to the UK
:yea: I guess laughing at Britain right now is just a good coping mechanism for acknowledging where the US will be in 2d12 years
For any possible non-leftist Scottish onlooker or lurker who’s on the fence about what to vote for on the next independence ballot, please vote yes (not that I’m biased). If you’re in Northern Ireland and not a leftist, I implore you to vote for Sinn Fein for a reunited Ireland.
The gammons will have a legendary supervillain breakdown a la TVtropes.
The US is the worst society on Earth because in the UK, as their favorite PM once said, “There is no society.”
Power Cut is officially my new favorite euphemism for revolutionary use of the :gui-better:
Also, not to mock or judge appearances, but if this guy shaved his head he’d make a top notch Uncle Fester
Gotta love how these crusty white boomers are all like “A little hellish amount of suffering is good for you”
They lived during a time of unprecedented economic and societal stability, especially in comparison to to their non-white counterparts and especially so compared to the nations they exploited to achieve that
Worst they probably suffered was a Jell-O salad every now and again
Living in Texas during a blackout that lasted a few days at below freezing was… a bit more than mildly unpleasant. Can’t imagine having to put up with that shit for weeks or months at a time.
Probably the worst angle on it is the theory that this will encourage people to turn off their damned phones (wut r batrys?) and go outside (in the middle of UK winter?) for anything other than a full blown riot.
I mean, the lights are on right now. We didn’t lose the grid during the August heat wave. So… eh.
Damn young people so entitled…now excuse me while I weep and flagellate myself in honor of the very unentitled queen.
