Spendrill 2mo ago • 100%
Reminds me of the time that Disney had to send round a memo ordering their staff to stop referring to the studio as 'Mauschwitz' on social media. The staff complied, changing the name to 'Duckau'.
Spendrill 2mo ago • 100%
This guy is a liar himself, look how he distorts the evidence. For example: Trump is an awful human being and a terrible leader and I'd go as far as to say that his January 6th shenanigans were treasonous but to pin the rise in the murder rate on him and him alone seems to be a wilful neglect of the other circumstances. Covid isolated people within their own houses and there are a lot of guns in those houses as is outlined in one of the links in the article.
File under: more Conservative hypocrisy.
Spendrill 2mo ago • 97%
I didn't know the difference so I looked it up: https://www.spinny.com/blog/index.php/awd-vs-4wd-the-difference-explained/
Spendrill 2mo ago • 100%
Site has got a shitty cookie control page that has no means of saving your decisions
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
"I'd like to give them some fucking stimulus."
Spendrill 3mo ago • 66%
If you want to insure yourself against capital flight go for a Land Value Tax. Let 'em shove a hectare of land in their luggage.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
OK so it's time to say the quiet part out loud: the reason that governments have so far held off on taxing billionaires at 1% or 2% is the fear that they might spend 2% or 3% against those governments in revenge.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
General Zod: I like the globe...
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
Monty, you terrible cunt!
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
What ever happened to him?
Well, he pulled it on Rorschach, and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
the ability of professional journalists to locate these specimens.
Heave half a brick out of window and you'll hit one.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
Even worse than that, the far right, as represented by Reform, did better than they have previously done and could yet cause us more problems come the next general election. It's possible that the centrist government that's just been elected will manage effectively enough to kill a lot of the sense of grievance that is currently being harnessed by Reform and directed against immigrants but it's equally possible that another global recession could tank that entire programme.
Still and all I appreciate you coming in here to talk with me about how your thinking has changed. I agree that the French very much did what you say they did. I don't know if there are still people alive who remember the Vichy government but it could be that amongst the traditionally conservative people in their seventies and eighties there's still a horror about what the Nazis wrought.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
Well that was more entertaining than I thought it would be.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 93%
What happens when a Tory learns about empathy?
Cognitive dissonance.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
Only way I can imagine Suella chasing a trans voter is with a cricket bat.
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.”
Spendrill 3mo ago • 52%
The butter won't make him fat but the pasta will.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
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.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
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.
Spendrill 3mo ago • 100%
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.
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.
Turns out they're capitalists too...
To them it's hilarious that all of our suffering was caused by someone else praying for it.
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