The Coming Authoritarianism.

[Mr. Tea]

You need to change your profile pic, it's almost as bad as the homophobic one you were forced to memory hole.

Scolded by @148 I.Q. Magical Thinker, Defender of the Sensitive!

 

[WashYourHands]

Toby?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Toby?

Fucked if I know.

 

[luka]

this is the very basic concept which is completely beyond the intellectual capacity of Mr Tea

When only two sides of an argument are presented they are usually both wrong.

Simple Example to illustrate

Starmer is Pure Evil, corrupt to the core and wholly coopted by The Establishment, true

But this does not mean Johnson is somehow not a cunt. Both need mincing in the machine

 

[Mr. Tea]

this is the very basic concept which is completely beyond the intellectual capacity of Mr Tea

When only two sides of an argument are presented they are usually both wrong.

Simple Example to illustrate

Starmer is Pure Evil, corrupt to the core and wholly coopted by The Establishment, true

But this does not mean Johnson is somehow not a cunt. Both need mincing in the machine

You were saying the other day you were glad Boris was in charge, you great twat.

 

[luka]

Right. So why are we entrusting this sense of collective solidarity all to the state? That's the question I'm asking. The fact is, anti-vaccers are a manufactured enemy (by the state which end up reenforcing its mechanisms even further) just as conspiracy thinkers are. Resistance to social atomisation does not always take the form of left wing politics.

Only third could think up a conspiracy theory that says conspiracy thinkers are an enemy conspiratorially manufactured by the state

 

[luka]

You were saying the other day you were glad Boris was in charge, you great twat.

In a lesser of two evils sense, yes. In the grand scheme of things he's obviously up there with one of the two last people on earth you'd ever want to see holding that office.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Only third could think up a conspiracy theory that says conspiracy thinkers are an enemy conspiratorially manufactured by the state

Not at all. It's a pretty obvious idea, one I've toyed with for years and which Adam Curtis has also mentioned.

 

[luka]

Not at all. It's a pretty obvious idea, one I've toyed with for years and which Adam Curtis has also mentioned.

Everything you have said today, and every other day is proof that this is total bollocks and you are a subhuman who should be incinerated

 

[Mr. Tea]

In a lesser of two evils sense, yes. In the grand scheme of things he's obviously up there with one of the two last people on earth you'd ever want to see holding that office.

He's a boring centrist but he'd be better than Johnson by any meaningful metric. I can't be fucked waiting for saviours, and less bad is always better than really, really bad. Even if he just stopped things getting any worse before someone a bit more interesting comes along, that'd be something.

But he replaced your golden boy, so he's your favourite person to imagine dismembering while having an angry wank.

 

[luka]

I'm not entirely serious when I say Starmer would be worse actually, but I think it's possible. I wouldn't vote Tory of course, but I won't vote Starmer either.

 

[WashYourHands]

Something more appropriate

 

[woops]

before replying to this thread please bear in mind that HMGOVT HAS A IQ OF 146 SO HES PROBABLY RIGHT

 

[WashYourHands]

Fred West was unfair, felt cheap, then I thought “Windsor!”

 

[woops]

before replying to this thread please bear in mind that HMGOVT HAS A IQ OF 146 SO HES PROBABLY RIGHT

having said that mr tea is literallya rocket scientist so he is probably right too.

 

[Roobric]

feels more like an edging authoritarianism to me

 

[luka]

feels more like an edging authoritarianism to me

We need an edging thread maybe

 

[Leo]

maybe not.

 

[Leo]

probably not. definitely not.

 

[luka]

I don't think any of us know how to defer gratitification in any case